La Casa de las Flores, Secundino architect Suazo and residence of the poet Pablo Neruda at the beginning of the war, shot after suffering the bombing during the civil war. (Click on any image to enlarge)
MARKET ARGÜELLES, Neruda, BOMBING AND THE VIRGIN OF THE DOVE.
Dear readers, again and not lose that aura of prestige that you worked hard to get along all this time, we return to again miss our word and we will not publish the promised review on Sanfermines de1936 July, we thought last month published to coincide with the celebration of this traditional celebration, then have someone say that traditions are being lost in Spain. Chronicle and the virtually complete lack of binding some fringe on the texts of Corn Felix, secretary of the main protagonist in those days, General Emilio Mola, who organized the conspiracy using the nickname "The Director". In particular the fringes referred to the death of general coup in a mysterious plane crash, according to some authors still has not been sufficiently clarified. A chronicle in which bulls are mixed and civil war, so please our readers. Let us hope that before July 2011 when the 75th anniversary of those events, the announced and expected review has seen the light.
If last month we had to suspend publication of chronic awaited the happenings of that now legendary South African World, this time is due to the appearance in the press of a topic of particular interest to me and specifically for that peerless young right-hander, retired from the arena in full triumphant apotheosis, which responds to the name "Moncloveño." For several months I have been following a forum on issues of Madrid, genuine Sanhedrin of encyclopedic knowledge, agora endless debate about the history of Madrid, where they pour their knowledge a large group of scholars commanded, and without wishing to detract from anyone, for no par Maria Isabel Gea, author of a number of papers, some of which have already become indispensable for anyone wanting to know the history of Madrid. To paraphrase the great José Luis López Vázquez in I we great "robbery the three" if I have the honor of you reading these lines is estimated Maria Isabel allow me this: "Florentino Sanders. His slave, his servant, his admirer. "
?..., Where was it, as I said, I was a regular follower of that unparalleled forum but not daring to participate because of my major shortages, until one day after the World Cup final, was published an entry on the triumphal parade down the street selection of La Princesa, in particular its way through the streets of Altamirano. Powered by a spring as I checked and did my first speech in the ring of such famous forum, and the and done, sign up and disappear the network forum was all one, even thought it scared me had fled. Days passed and this blog came a message from a reader named Illán, that the gods may continue many years in which I stated that the forum had not disappeared, but it had moved here. What I was, as you can imagine, a great joy.
diplomatic document attesting to the residence of Pablo Neruda in the Casa de Las Flores, specifically on 19 Gaztambide street.
few days ago came the news that the market of Madrid, opened in 1949, was to be remodeled, and the journalist who wrote the article concluded by comparing the market with Pablo Neruda wrote verses in the first months of civil war where the market mentioned Argüelles. I expressed that surely the journalist was wrong, but nevertheless, one of the regular participants in that forum, a true beacon of wisdom in all matters relating to the neighborhood of Madrid, said that according to testimony from former neighbors in the solar market, and before the war, they'd usually post, composing a unique open-air market. According to some testimonies that I had collected earlier, during the war there was a market stable Marques de Urquijo street, or Paseo de Areneros as it was known then. No doubt it was an interesting topic to deal with, and without hesitation began an arduous research in the extensive archives of the wording of the sun and flies that then we show the remarkable results achieved.
all begins with the poetry of Pablo Neruda, entitled: "Explaining a Few Things." Let's look at some of his verses:
I lived in a neighborhood / of Madrid, with bells, / and clocks, and trees. From there you could
/ dry face of Castilla / leather like an ocean. My house was called / home of the flowers, because all Parts / geraniums burst: it was / an open house / with dogs and children. / Raúl, do you remember? / Remember, Rafael? / Federico, do you remember? / under the earth, / I remember my balconies where / the light of June drowned flowers in your mouth?
Brother, brother! / All / were great voices, the salt of merchandises, / agglomerations of palpitating bread, / stalls of my suburb of Arguelles with his statue / like a pale inkwell of hake: / oil flowed into spoons, / a deep baying / feet and hands filled the streets, meters, liters, acute / life, / fish, the / texture of roofs with a cold sun in which / the arrow fatigue / fine frenzied ivory of potatoes / tomatoes rolling down the sea. / And one morning all that was on fire, / and one morning bonfires / out of the earth / devouring human beings / and from then on fire, / gunpowder from then on, / and from then on blood. / Bandits with planes and Moors, / bandits with rings and duchesses, / bandits with black friars spattering blessings / came through the sky to kill children, / and through the streets the blood of children ran just as blood children. And ends:
Come and see the blood in the streets, / come and see / the blood in the streets, / come and see the blood / in the streets!
These are just some of the stanzas of this poem referring to the neighborhood of Madrid, that if you want full read can do so at:
http://www.neruda.uchile.cl/obra/obraresidencia3d.html Well dear readers, does not seem to be any doubt that Arguelles was at least one market at the beginning of the war. The question would be to know where he was located, we began our research and soon found the first clues, the October 7, 1903 had been inaugurated in the Paseo de Sanders, actual corner Alberto Aguilera Andrés Mellado, a brand new, modern market. Let's see how he gathered the press at the time:
collecting News Market Opening Passage Sanders. The building was designed by architect Don Antonio Farrés and was built by the Marqués de Velilla de Ebro with Grandee of Spain, D. Jordan Joseph Azara Urries and Arias y López Fernández de Heredia (1868-1932). This character was, in addition to Marquis, a man of letters who study philosophy at the University of Zarzagoza doctorate in Madrid, where he would become professor of aesthetics until his death in 1932 at his home in Serrano 80, after performing an important task teacher by several universities and published several books and papers. We do not know what were the reasons that prompted him to build this building neomudejar aesthetic, perhaps as an investment or as altruistic service to the neighborhood, or perhaps a mixture of both. Here's another story at that time:
Other news on the open market.
We were not able to locate any information on the record so far regarding the use of the current solar market before the war beyond the testimonies of some neighbors. However if we have three photos of the sun during the conflict that may allow us to venture some hypotheses. All these images belong to the General Archive of the Administration, specifically the photographic archive known as Red, photographs taken mostly during the last months of 1936 and early 1937.
In the first picture show shot from the corner of Calle Altamirano Princess, we see that the current solar market there built a house adjoining the foundry Richard Gans, therefore the site was not transparent.
Photograph taken during the war Altamirano Street, at the bottom left of the current solar market.
observed in the second photo the solar market, but this time from the corner of Altamirano and Tutor. On the left the site, which distinguishes a section of wall with a door work, continued by a wooden fence at the back, sticking with the joint ownership of the first property that appears in the Guardian Street, stands a roof to a Water announces another building or a covered shed. In addition to these data see to the right the ruins of the Convent building Trinitarias Altamirano Street destroyed by the effect of the bombing.
another snapshot, this time taken from the street tutor place.
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currently taking Finally a picture very similar to the above, taken a little further back, to Benito Gutierrez. This image does not bring us much more in relation to solar, which seems stored inside some material, but the picture we can tell the left what is now the bar La Central, and to the right shoe, which remained open until recently as a shoe repair shop when he was replaced by a hairdresser. We also appreciate more detail on Trinitarias destruction.
Another shot from the Guardian Street, in the foreground on the left The current bar Central. 
The same photo today Unfortunately we could not get enough information document or graphic evidence that allows us to state categorically whether the site currently occupied by the Market and Argüelles was used as an outdoor market before the war, nor to deny it. We found a picture of what could be a gallery of food, which was also damaged as a result of the bombing, and the Red Archive located on the street of Good Success, although there are numerous errors in this file location. According to other oral testimony in Marques de Urquijo, which currently houses the European bread bakery, there was little market power or gallery, "Perhaps this picture?:
possible Image Gallery Food Marques de Urquijo. But dear fellow readers, perhaps most surprising about this research is difficult to narrate what happened next. Even if it costs, I must admit that this news was uncovered by that partner objectionable Gefrema responding to the alias of Sales Chato, if readers, we're talking about that character well known among circles of gamblers, swindlers, cierrabares, trileros, pickpockets and other breed that swarms by the underworld and the most sordid taverns in the suburbs. An individual who poses as a historian using a card trick from a Bulgarian university, and who is also a leading member of the Rock Taurine Casado, where he shares with his inseparable Sandoval tended, in short, a person whose hallmark feature is the cry THIRD LIVE!, which usually pronounced as he raises his arm clutching a bottle of that capacity, bordered in most cases by the five distinctive stars. Well, as I comment was this character, funded by the gold of La Vanguardia, who uncovered the story in the Forum Gefrema, where he placed a notice in 1939 that reported that the Virgen de la Paloma, whose feast we celebrate in short, was hidden in a house on Calle Altamirano during the war. After comparing the news (task required when it comes to this guy) discovered that the data were true.
Firefighters prepare to pick up the painting of the Virgin of the Dove .
here are not going to tell the fascinating story of the Virgen de La Paloma, or his temple, we will refer only to the period between the Proclamation of the Republic and end the civil war. A few days the proclamation of the republic in April 1934, namely May 11, 1931, there were a number of serious altercations that resulted in the burning of several churches and religious facilities in Madrid. Alarmed by these developments, the custodian of the canvas depicting the Virgen de la Paloma decided to replace it with a copy to avoid possible damage to the image. This copy would remain in the temple until July 1936 when there was the failed coup that unleashed the civil war. That was when Peter Labiana, president of the parish council decided to take him to his home on the street Altamirano No. 48, where they hide hidden in the headboard of a bed. No But he was not going to last much tranquility to the canvas. In November and December of that year the district would suffer terrible air strikes by Franco aviation that would cause tremendous damage as we have seen in the images of this chronicle, and one of them would affect the farm that was hiding the Virgin. The danger of the situation forced her to perform a new transfer of the image, you can imagine given the situation and being the front line area the riskiness of the company. The painting was moved to the basement of a drugstore located at nearby Glorieta de San Bernardo, owned by relatives of the family where he stayed until the end of contest, to be repaid back to the temple on August 15, 1939, while under the custody of gold and gold and diamonds that accompanied the picture does not appear anymore. You think that throughout this period, the copy of the image of the Virgin Mary stood in the temple, but did not, the copy was taken from the temple by a shoemaker in the neighborhood, oblivious to changes that had occurred, he hid in his copying address box on the belief that it was the authentic, something that does not diminish the courage he showed this person doing this action, which undoubtedly would have led to serious problems if they were found.
officials attending the ceremony of the descent of the Virgin, watching with rapt approach the solemn moment.
this exciting chronicle far focused on the Argüelles district, a neighborhood that houses an extensive history, generally unknown by most of the residents who live there. With this we end this season Chronicle and close the writing SOL AND FLIES to enjoy the writing team for a well deserved holiday. After this digression we return to keep them informed of the current bull-guerracivilera. Happy Summer to all and do not see in the month of September.
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Florentino
Sanders.
Poster
film shot in 1934 and directed by Benito based Perojo Zarzuela La Verbena de la Paloma.
