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Rosalía de Castro and the Galician revival

The granite house in Padrón where Rosalía de Castro lived, now her museum, with a wooden balcony
Photo: Iago Pillado. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rosalía de Castro, born in Santiago in 1837, published Cantares gallegos in 1863, the first major book of modern poetry in Galician, a language then looked down on as rustic. Her verse gave voice to the rural poor, to women left behind by mass emigration and to Galician identity, and launched the Rexurdimento, or revival. Galicia's Day of Letters is held each 17 May, the book's anniversary.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Casa-Museo Rosalía de Castro, PadrónThe house where she lived her last years and died in 1885.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Panteón de Galegos Ilustres, Santo Domingo de BonavalHer tomb in a convent church beside the Museo do Pobo Galego.Map ↗

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