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Meaning of velintonia, la casa de la poesía




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velintonia, la casa de la poesía
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Castellanization of Wellingtonia, scientific name of a redwood and the street of the poet Vicente Aleixandre in Madrid until 1978. Castellanization that the poet got from his armchair O of the RAE. In Velintonia 3, now Vicente Aleixandre 4, the poet lived until his death in '84 and was the meeting place of the literary creators of the 27th and later. Here you could see García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Alberti, Gerando Diego, Cernuda, Neruda. . . and then Gil de Biedma, Carlos Bousoño, José Hierro, Luis Antonio de Villena and so many others. Velintonia 3, Vicente Aleixandre 4, the house of poetry, is now abandoned at the end of Queen Victoria near the University City.

  



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