Mariana Pineda

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

• Studied here

  College of Noble Girls

  She was educated at Granada’s Colegio de Niñas Nobles while under the guardianship of José de Mesa and Úrsula de la Presa.

• Burial place

  Former Almengor Cemetery Site

  Her body remained in the Almengor cemetery from 1831 until its official exhumation in 1836.

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  Commemorated here

  Granada City Hall

  She is shown leaving the beaterio for execution in the large historical painting that gives the mayor’s room its name.

• Lived here

  Mariana Pineda House Museum

  She occupied this house before her arrest in 1831 and was initially confined here under guard.

• Commemorated here

  Mariana Pineda Square

  A marble statue in the square depicts the liberal activist whose execution inspired Lorca’s drama.

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  Lived here

  Palacio de Mariana Pineda

  She was born into the Pineda family associated with this house and spent part of her early life here.