Velintonia, la casa de la poesía madrileña, abrirá al público en 2027

In two years, Madrid will have a poetic center of reference. It is Velintonia, the house of Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre. After its purchase by the Community of Madrid, the goal is to renovate it and make it the main center of activities for the centenary of the Generation of 27.

Behind its walls lies one of the most ambitious cultural projects in Madrid for the coming years. Velintonia, a ruin witness of the Spanish literature’s Silver Age, will host the most important poetry center in Madrid.

This Saturday, the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Mariano de Paco, expressed this. The regional government was the only one to bid to acquire this property for the minimum accepted amount, 3,193,225 euros. «The great celebration that we want to hold for the centenary of the Generation of 27 is precisely the opening of Velintonia. That phase has already been fulfilled. The next step will be to open its doors so that citizens can enter that space of literature, culture, and intangible heritage left to us by Vicente Aleixandre,» stated the minister.

For this purpose, a renovation phase must be carried out beforehand so that all visitors can perceive «in some way what that house of poetry was and is today.» «The first project is to prevent it from falling, and that is why the Community of Madrid was in such a hurry to acquire the property or prevent others from doing so,» he recalled.

After the bid made by the Community in a public auction, work is already underway for the immediate declaration of a cultural interest asset. The next step will be the approval of the renovation project and conversion into the Vicente Aleixandre House Museum and House of Poetry. The goal is to complete the project in two years so that Velintonia becomes the central axis of the first centenary of the Generation of 27.

On its parquet floors walked Lorca or Miguel Hernández. Those walls were already the House of Poetry in Vicente Aleixandre’s lifetime, the only Spanish poet Nobel Prize in Literature along with Juan Ramón Jiménez.