Casa-Museo Unamuno
To understand the intellectual, humanistic side of Salamanca, visit this 18th-century house where early 20th-century poet/philosopher/novelist Miguel de Unamuno lived during his first term as university rector. Never have we seen a home where the life of the mind was so manifest, from his library of world masterpieces to his own photographs showing him with the top intelligentsia of his era. A man of principle, he had to leave the country when dictator Primo de Rivera came to power and demanded that he censor his scholarship. When de Rivera fell, Unamuno returned exultant, but the euphoria was short-lived. As a symbol of lofty values and high ideals, Unamuno was crushed in Spain’s descent into chaos, and died of an apparent broken heart shortly after the Spanish Civil War began. Unamuno loved his adopted city deeply, once writing in a poem, “I keep your very soul in my heart. And you, my golden Salamanca, will keep my memory when I die.” And so it has.
To understand the intellectual, humanistic side of Salamanca, visit this 18th-century house where early 20th-century poet/philosopher/novelist Miguel de Unamuno lived during his first term as university rector. Never have we seen a home where the life of the mind was so manifest, from his library of world masterpieces to his own photographs showing him with the top intelligentsia of his era. A man of principle, he had to leave the country when dictator Primo de Rivera came to power and demanded that he censor his scholarship. When de Rivera fell, Unamuno returned exultant, but the euphoria was short-lived. As a symbol of lofty values and high ideals, Unamuno was crushed in Spain’s descent into chaos, and died of an apparent broken heart shortly after the Spanish Civil War began. Unamuno loved his adopted city deeply, once writing in a poem, “I keep your very soul in my heart. And you, my golden Salamanca, will keep my memory when I die.” And so it has.
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