Interior
Ground floor
“I liked action; I liked risky ventures… As a baby, still in the babysitter’s arms, I loved to be taken down to the stables, to touch the cows’ heads. I still have vivid memories of their huge, moist eyes. As soon as I was a little older, I forced myself to perform an act that seemed epic to me at the time: to pass under the horses and cows, between their legs…”
This is how Valle-Inclán described –in an interview published in El Heraldo de Madrid on March 13, 1926– his memories of the Casa do Cuadrante’s ground floor. At that time, this entire area was occupied by the stables –divided by partitions to separate the animals– and cellars, as well as the characteristic tools that were kept in a rural house of that time.
The heat that was produced in the stables served as heating for the house in winter. In order to conserve heat, the stables were ventilated by means of small open holes in the walls, called bufardas. These vents can still be seen today on the ground floor of the building.
Nowadays, this floor houses municipal administrative offices, a tourist office, a reception and a large exhibition room. You can take a tour of Valle-Inclán’s life and work of Valle-Inclán, discovering authentic literary gems.
The showcases feature fifty first editions of several of the writer’s works. These include Autumn Sonata (1901), Summer Sonata (1903), Spring Sonata (1904), or the stories of Jardín Umbrío (1903), where several references are made to the Casa do Cuadrante itself. Other of the author’s outstanding publications on display are Divine Words (1920), Bohemian Lights (1920), which gave rise to Valle-Inclán’s particular grotesque style, or Martes de Carnaval (1930).
