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The birthplace of Gabriel y Galán

Frades de la Sierra, Guijuelo, Salamanca

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The birthplace of Gabriel y Galán

Monument · Frades de la Sierra, Guijuelo, Salamanca

The house where the poet José María Gabriel y Galán was born on 28 June 1870, son of the agricultural landowners Narciso Gabriel and Bernarda Galán, is preserved in Frades de la Sierra and can be visited; it is the main cultural attraction of a municipality of little more than 160 inhabitants. Gabriel y Galán spent his childhood here before moving to Salamanca and then to Madrid to study teaching (Magisterio), and worked as a teacher in Guijuelo and in Piedrahíta before marrying in 1898 and settling in Guijo de Granadilla, in Cáceres, where he died in 1905. He wrote both in Castilian and in the Extremaduran dialect known as castúo, the language in which he composed, among other poems, El Cristu benditu.

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