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One of the best legacies left by Antonio Gala has been his work. He was always aware of this and much more when readers showed him their affection and fetish actresses like Concha Velasco interpreted some of his texts. But after his death at the age of 92, we must also highlight his other legacy, the material one.

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From her mysterious love for a famous Spanish actor to her life in a convent

  • Writing: LUIS FERNANDO ROMO

From her mysterious love for a famous Spanish actor to her life in a convent

With the money earned thanks to his art he acquired a villa of 340 square meters in the elitist neighborhood of El Viso, which in the Madrid of the 50s and 60s had as illustrious neighbors Ava Gardner or General Perón. In his garden with swimming pool the author was able to isolate himself from the madding crowd. But the arrival of the Movida and the fatigue of having to attend social events and promotions led to the move.

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He decided to become self-absorbed in the south. By pure chance he saw that a Malaga farm was for sale and without thinking twice he acquired it. In Alhaurín el Grande (Malaga), in the Guadalhorce valley, he took over La Baltasara, which with its 30,000 square meters of gardens and farmland houses an eighteenth-century country house of 380 square meters and another house of 290 square meters. In a part of that garden are the tombs of some of his puppies, there is an extensive collection of religious ceramics, some of his canes, the virgins he adored so much ... It is currently the Antonio Gala House Museum and is open to the public.

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In this redoubt rather similar to an oasis he wrote some of his most emblematic works such as La truhana or Crimson Manuscript. A couple of years ago, the Consistory of Alhaurín el Grande bought the property for 360,000 euros. The money was made available to the Antonio Gala Foundation for young creators between 18 and 30 years old.

The last five decades were spent in a former Dominican convent of Corpus Christie of the seventeenth century where the Antonio Gala Foundation is located and where his ashes have been scattered. As Vanitatis points out, it is a series of buildings in various heights with a total area of 3,500 square meters. The author, born in Brazatortas (Ciudad Real), had an enormous creative process that resulted in 30 plays, 13 novels, six books of poetry, 10 biographical works or essays, 10 compilations of articles, five film scripts and five television adaptations.

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His literary side did not prevent him from having a fertile financial vision, since a large part of his profits were invested in companies linked to the brick. Together with his friend Teodulfo Fufo Lagunero, a millionaire linked to the PCE, he participated in one of the largest real estate developments in Alhaurín el Grande with the construction of Alhaurín Golf, which intended to build 2,500 homes, two golf courses designed by Severiano Ballesteros and a luxury hotel, but the writer and the professor withdrew from all that megalomania when the environmentalists denounced the illegality for wanting to build in that natural wasteland and the Prosecutor began to investigate the link of the property with the Gürtel case. According to Vanitatis, Gala had the company Las Terrazas de Alhaurín that is liquidated; the extinct Mirador de Alhaurín Golf S.A. and in 2020 he created Planeta Gala S.A. that manages his cultural legacy thanks to the work of his nephew José María Gala, journalist and secretary of the entity.

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