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Manuel de Falla, a great representative of regional Spanish music, left his native Cádiz in 1896 to study at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid. He went to Paris, where he met He studied Debussy and after his second stay in Madrid, he settled there. in Granada during a great season of his life.The Nasrid city captivated to the Cádiz composer,who acquired a Carmen in 1922 (a typical Granada house with an orchard and garden), where he would reside. along with his sister María del Carmen. A not large house with objects that tell us about the composer's personality, such as a piano, record player or picasso and Zuloaga paintings. Next to the building are the gardens: a source of inspiration for some of his great works such as El Amor Brujo and El Retablo de Maese Pedro. The artist will form part of a group of intellectuals from Granada society, responsible for the first Cante Jondo competition in the Alhambra Gardens in 1922. Federico García Lorca, one of the members of the group and great friend of Manuel de Falla, will die in 1936 and will mean the beginning of the end of the Granada stage of the composer, which will see his exile in Argentina, where he died in 1946.