{"id":74,"date":"2017-01-17T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alqueriamorayma.com\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2017-02-24T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T10:51:46","slug":"entorno","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alqueriamorayma.com\/en\/entorno\/","title":{"rendered":"Surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y\u00e9gen<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>The village of Yegen is part of the municipality (local council administrative district) of Alpujarra de la Sierra which also includes the villages of Mecina Bombar\u00f3n and Golco and the tiny hamlet of Montenegro.<\/p>\n

Mecina Bombar\u00f3n was the home base of the King Ab\u00e9n Abo\u00f3, leader of the second Alpujarra rebellion and \u00a0the last\u00a0Moorish monarch to remain on Spanish soil. He was assassinated in 1571 when Phillip II brought to an end any further moorish revolt. Also in Mecina there is the supposed Puente Romano (Roman bridge) that crosses the river Mecina below the main road and forms part of the ancient \u2018Camino Real\u2019 that linked Almer\u00eda with Granada. In Montenegro there is the delightful natural spring \u201cThe Gypsy\u2019s Leap\u2019 and a pretty capilla devoted to the Virgin F\u00e1tima. Golco\u00a0contains one of the oldest churches in the region built on the foundations of an erstwhile mosque whose architectural features include rare examples of vaulting and plaster work. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nLeer m\u00e1s...<\/span>

YEGEN is internationally well known as the first Spanish home of the English writer and hispanist Gerald Brenan; and is the subject of his most famous book \u2018South from Granada\u2019 which considers the culture, anthropology and history of the village as much as the author\u2019s personal history of his stay there.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy is the most recent Brenan biographer. He says that for Brenan, YEGEN was his \u2018desert island\u2019. \u201cFrom this vast view of mountains, valleys, villages and distant sea lay spread out like an illustration of the features of the world in a child\u2019s geography book. Behind the house the mountain rose gently in a succession of cultivated terraces, while immediately at my feet lay the village, sliding down the slope, an agglomeration of grey<\/p>\n

rectangular surfaces that from where I stood looked like a Cubist picture by Braque. And now the sun was setting. The goats and the cattle were being driven home, the voices of the men and women calling to one another lay like long streamers in the air, the white pigeons were circling\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026I became aware of a sweet aromatic smell\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026every one of those flat grey roofs\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..and from each of these chimneys issued a plume of grey smoke. The women were<\/p>\n

cooking their suppers and for fuel they used bushes of rosemary, thyme and lavender, which were brought in on donkeys\u2019 backs from the hills close by.\u201d<\/p>\n

GERALD BRENAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Was born in 1894 into an English middle class family of military background. During his first 8 years he lived with his family in South Africa, Ireland and India. When he was 17 he ran away from home and walked with his friend and mentor John Hope-Johnstone to \u2018somewhere in Bosnia\u2019, some 2,500 kms! They were aiming for China!<\/p>\n

In the early 1920s, after serving in the First World War, Brenan moved himself and his belongings (mostly books) to Yegen, where he lived intermittently for many years, entertained leading members of the \u2018Bloomsbury Set\u2019 (including Lyton Strachey, Dora Carrington and Bertrand Russel), and fathered a daughter (Miranda) with Juliana a young woman from Yegen.<\/p>\n

Brenan married an American, Gamel Woolsey, and after the Second World War returned to live in Spain where he wrote other seminal works on the Peninsula; The Spanish Labyrinth, The Face of Spain, The Literature of the Spanish People are the most well known.<\/p>\n

This year has seen the screening of the first Spanish film related to Brenan. Directed by the respected and well known Fernando Colomo, the screenplay is based upon Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy\u2019s biography, \u2018The Interior Castle\u2019 and focuses on the relationship between Brenan and the mother (Juliana \u00a0from Yegen) of his only child Miranda.<\/p>\n

Brenan\u2019s house in Yegen is still standing and bears a plaque commemorating his stay in the village.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Y\u00e9gen The village of Yegen is part of the municipality (local council administrative district) of Alpujarra de la Sierra which also includes the villages of Mecina Bombar\u00f3n and Golco and the tiny hamlet of Montenegro. 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