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Birthplace of Eduardo Pondal

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Birthplace of Eduardo Pondal

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In this pazo beside the mouth of the Anllóns river, Eduardo María González-Pondal y Abente was born on 8 February 1835, the youngest of seven siblings in a hidalgo family enriched by emigration to America. A Galician regionalist poet, he wrote in both Spanish and Galician and frequented, in Santiago, the tertulias of the Liceo San Agustín alongside Rosalía de Castro, Manuel Murguía and Aurelio Aguirre, as well as the A Coruña tertulia A Cova Céltica. He worked as a Navy doctor in Ferrol before giving up the profession and retiring to his family home, from where he travelled frequently to La Coruña, the city where he died in 1917. The opening stanzas of his poem Os Pinos, set to music by Pascual Veiga, premiered in La Habana in 1907 as a Galician anthem.

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