Entrance to Carmen Martín Gaite's family home in El Boalo

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Carmen Martín Gaite's house in El Boalo

Carmen Martín Gaite · 1925-2000 · El Boalo

The stone house in the Madrid sierra where Carmen Martín Gaite spent weekends and summers, with her library and her father's study.

Schedule

Guided visits on set dates · booking required

Admission

€10 · free for under-8s

Address

Calle El Vallejuelo, 3, Los Prados, 28413 El Boalo, Madrid

Visits

Always guided · about two and a half hours

The house

Carmen Martín Gaite's refuge in the sierra

Did you know that Carmen Martín Gaite wrote Retahílas in her father's study, in a stone house in the Madrid sierra? It's the family home in El Boalo, where the Salamanca-born writer spent weekends and summers, and today you can visit it.

It was built by her father, José Martín López, and many of the writers of the 1950s generation, Carmen's generation, passed through it. Today it keeps the furniture, photographs and mementoes of several generations of the family, as well as her father's library and that of the Martín Gaite sisters.

It is also the headquarters of the Martín Gaite Foundation, which her sister, Ana María, set up in 2014, and thanks to the foundation and the Town Council it can be visited. Carmen is buried in El Boalo. If you love her work, don't miss it!

Library on the first floor of the tower in Carmen Martín Gaite's family home in El Boalo, with a green sofa, armchairs and a portrait on the wall

The first floor of the tower, with its library. Photo: Martín Gaite Foundation.

What you'll see on the visit

Her father's study

This is where Carmen worked when she was in El Boalo, and where she wrote books such as Retahílas.

The libraries

The house holds her father's personal library and that of the Martín Gaite sisters.

The sitting rooms and the tower

Furniture, paintings, photographs and mementoes of several generations of the Martín and Gaite families fill the sitting rooms and the two floors of the tower.

Additional information

https://elboalo-cerceda-mataelpino.org/visita-guiada-a-la-casa-familiar-de-carmen/

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