On August 16, 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Federico GarcĂa Lorca was arrested in Granada by Nationalist forces, who abhorred his homosexuality and his liberal views, and was imprisoned without a trial. On the night of August 18 or 19, he was driven to a remote hillside outside town and shot.
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