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The House of Leonor Izquierdo

Almenar de Soria, Campo de Gómara, Soria

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The House of Leonor Izquierdo

Curiosity · Almenar de Soria, Campo de Gómara, Soria

Image of Almenar de Soria, not of the place itself.

In this village, on 12 June 1894, in the barracks house of the castle of Almenar, Leonor Izquierdo was born, the eldest daughter of Isabel Cuevas and Civil Guard sergeant Ceferino Izquierdo. By 1908 she was already in Soria, at her uncles' boarding house, where she met the teacher Antonio Machado; they married on 30 July 1909 in the church of Santa María la Mayor, she having just turned fifteen and he thirty-four. In 1911, in Paris, she began to show the first symptoms of the tuberculosis that would lead to her death; the couple returned to Soria and rented a house next to the hermitage of Nuestra Señora del Mirón, seeking the mountain air then recommended as a cure. She died on 1 August 1912, at eighteen, leaving in Machado's work the poet's most desolate verses.

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