this small town half an hour from granada, whose name means ¨Cowboy Fountain¨, is a rough place surrounded by fields, dry mountains, and cattle ranches. it's the town where federico garcia lorca, perhaps spains's greatest poet and dramatist of the 20th century, was born (he was executed nearby in granada at the start of the spanish civil war). there's a quiet melancholy and a loneliness to the town, as there is to garcia lorca's poetry, with it's gypsy rhythms and laments.