“Una quimera. Un símbolo. Un refugio creativo en tiempos oscuros. Un oasis de libertad. Velintonia, la casa del número 3, la morada de Vicente Aleixandre, clama por volver a ser lo que fue. Que vuelvan los poetas.”
The memory of the poet Vicente Aleixandre remains silent at No. 3 Velintonia Street. Home of a Nobel Prize in Literature 1977, it also recalls the joy of Lorca and other members of Generation´27, the pain of civil war and post-war, and became a meeting point for most writers in 20th century Spanish Literature, now is abandoned and for sale. This documentary recreates its story and spirit.
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