COMMEMORATIVE PLATE IN BAR LA ESTRELLA

A commemorative plaque has been installed on the side façade of La Estrella bar, en el puerto de Ibiza, which refers to the stay of María Teresa León and Rafael Alberti on the island now 85 years. Came the 28 June to spend a long vacation but the coup d'état and the outbreak of war forced them to change their plans…

Maria Teresa Leon y Rafael Alberti They lived at the beginning of their stay in Ibiza in the house of is na secorrada mill, where the City Council installed a monolith before El Molino with a text from the memories of María Teresa León.

The plate in the port, performed by ceramist Toniet, It is motivated by the many times sharing conversations with the friends who made the island as Just Tur, Escandell and other people in the city. These lines that refer to the bar are collected:

“At the end of June 1936 writers María Teresa León and Rafael Alberti arrived in Eivissa to spend a long holiday period. Three weeks later the military coup d'etat surprised them on the island that ended the Second Republic, and the outbreak of the Civil War. Years later, María Teresa León recalls in her memoirs those intense weeks, Friendships made and conversations at the La Estrella bar:

‘… Bye, Pau! Bye, Scandal! Bye, Just Tur! Bye, Adorable Small Island of Astarté! We leave, But we have to talk about you a lot, Beautiful among the beautiful… We have to sit at the Café de la Estrella -Well, Pau? true, Scandal?- Look at us, Remember…”.
Melancholy Memory / Maria Teresa Leon

Eivissa City Council in the 85 Anniversary of that stay.”

Other parts of María Teresa León's memories talking about that summer are as follows:

‘… Cruel times for the island that forced the Ibicencos to arm themselves for a reprisal war. The last brave has a statue -which is the star bar-. Is Captain Riquer. All the children of the island know him. He defeated the Gibraltar Pirate who pirate with English flag -which!- en 1806. …

Another paragraph that also talks about the La Estrella bar in the Book of Memories of María Teresa:

‘…We had met him (dick), With the student Justo Tur, In the star bar, where an almost clandestine radio worked, While the owner, Emigrado German, The speaker full of cuplets marched to the street: ‘That I have gypsy blood, In the palmite of the hand…

…Cruel times for the island that forced the Ibicencos to arm themselves for a reprisal war. The last brave has a statue -which is the star bar-. Is Captain Riquer. All the children of the island know him. He defeated the Gibraltar Pirate who pirate with English flag -which!- en 1806. …

We leave, But we have to talk about you a lot, Beautiful among the beautiful. We will look again at your sheep bathing in the early morning and the Carthaginian tombs covered with florid caps and the brooms and networks that fishermen take so silver for their Greek amphorae covered with mollusks.

We have to look again at the Ibizan girls and envy their necklaces; We have to kiss the old men with their spits at the waist and that mother with her daughter who let us steal grapes for our hunger… We have to sit at the Café de la Estrella -Vead Pau? true, Scandal?-, Look at us, remember and mix that cuplet that we heard: That I have gypsy blood – In the palm of the hand- to the international that we confidentially sang ... ’.

 

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