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El Madrid galdosianoThe galdosian Madrid

-We’re going to show you a view of Madrid in the XIX century, through the work of the spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós.-Galdós was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1843, but he moved to Madrid when he was joung, and died the 1920.-Galdós was one of the greatest spanish novelist during the Realism. -The novel of Galdós shows Madrid social life of the last third of XIX. Through his descriptions and his magnificent dialoges.he reveals accurately realism sometimes close too naturalisms, the atmosphere, tha characters and the streets and squares confortables of Madrid.-The pictures and references that we’re showing you belong to his novels: ‘La Fontana de Oro’, ‘Fortunata y Jacinta’, ‘Miau’, ‘Misericordia’ and to the National Episode ‘El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayo’.

March 19th and may 2ndIn the third episode of the first series of ‘National Episodes’, Galdós told us the facts that happened between march 19th and may 2nd in 1808.

MARCH 19th:At moment there was a rebellion in Aranjuez, people from there led by Prince of Asturias´ supporters, produced the abdication of Charles IV in his son, Fernando and the fell of Prime Minister, Godoy.

WHAT WAS THE BEGINNING?

At moment there were two political parties:

- Carlistas: Supporters of king IV and hi9s wife Mary de Parma.

- Fernandistas: Supporters of Asturias` prince, in the future Fernando VII who wanted his father to abdicate on him.

ANYWAY…

- The discontent because of the defeat in Trafalgar.- The intrigue of the Parliament.- The presence of French troops in Spain for Fontainebleau

MAY 2nd. Facts:

1. The Spanish people saw that the French troops didn’t follow the way esteemed, they wanted to invade the country.

2. The prince of Asturias infuriated his father.

3. The prince asked for help to Napoleon who invited him to France where he was caught prisoner. Then Napoleon appointed his brother Joseph I, Spanish king .

4. The next morning the prince and princess went to France and the people thought that Spain was going to be given to France.

UPRISING OF THE SECOND OF MAYHISTORY EPISODE

In the park of Monteleón´s artillery, Madrid and its people led by Daoíz and Velarde capitains, rose against the French army.In the uprising a young woman called, Manuela Malasaña, who was seamstress, fought with her scissors against the French in las Maravillas´ neighborhood. Now this neighborhood is called Malasaña in her honor, because she was really courageous.Finally people from Madrid were defeated by French soldiers on Second of May night in Pío Prince´s mountain where the shooting took place. The shooting was painted by Goya, an important Spanish painter.

Gabriel, who was looking for his sweetheart (Inés), went in to the battle to look for her, when finally found her she was about to be executed. He could save her and her uncle and aunt´s butler.

DAOÍZ AND VELARDE

JUANSE´S CHEMIST:

-Old chemist founded in 1892.

-It´s important because of its originals tiles, made by de cordobés enrique de guijo. in its tiles we can see the publicity of that period, with direct images and texts to attract the atention of the customers and sell its drugs. The produced scenes show different pruducts for each social class: “diarretil” (a woman with a boy), “stamps” for toothache (look at the cothes, furniture, position of the bodies,,,)

-We can see that the advertised drugs were made by the chemist because the chemists of that time were like small laboratories where the chemist made his own medicines.

-At the moment, it continues being a chemist in the corner of the street Vicente Ferrer and San Andres (unfortunately it has graffities above its tiles)

ICE FACTORY “LA INDUSTRIAL”-It is next to the chemist.

-The neomudejar building was built in 1915.

-It is one of the few examples of the short and late madrid´s industrial period.

-The industrual production of ice and its tradestarted from traditionaly way to keep fresh the food inside snow wells from the nearly mountains,

EL POZO CAKE SHOP-Located near Puerta del Sol.

-It was founded in 1830 with the name “horno de la calle del pozo”.

-Both the interior and the exterior preserve the traditional estetic of the 19th century with wood and crystal front and doors.

-Nowadays the products are made like in the past: in fact its pastries called ‘hojaldres’ are as good as before.

Pontejo´s square

-The Pontejo´s square is very near the Puerta del Sol.

-It is very famous in Madrid because of its etablishments related with the haberdasher´s shops and clothes shops. They said “if you are looking for something that you don´t find in Pontejos, it doesn´t exist”.

-In Galdós work, the Pontejo´s square is very important because it is the place where Jacinta lived, one main characters of his famous novel “ Fortunata y Jacinta” and the Santa Cruz family, who appeared in this novel too,had a shop here.

CAFÉS

-In the 19th century, cafés were the most important leisure-time-places, were people from Madrid spent their time. In the cafés, people used to talk about books or novels and even they made political conspiracys.

-Galdós spent a lot of free time in two famous cafés from Madrid: “El Café de las Columnas” and the one which is in La Puerta del Sol number 15.

-But the café which influenced the most in his work was: “La Fontana de Oro”, that gives name to one of his books. It was a place where young people, worried about the “people passions” talked and discussed. Most of them took part of the Spanish policy. This cfafé was very famous in that time. Now, it is an Irish pub.

Houses

-Houses 19th century had a wooden structure and weren´t higher than four floors.

-People who lived in those houses showed their social condition in a vertical way. The different floors showed class.

-The first floors were reserved for the rich families, they were bigger and the ceilings were higher. They were also more comfortable, and they had more rooms and a big courtyard. They were fresher in summer and warmer in winter.

-On the other hand, on the last floor the poor people lived (you can see this case in Fortunata´s house, from the novel “Fortunata y Jacinta”). These houses were lower and they had problems when it rained because of the leaks. They were much warmer in summer and colder in winter. They also bore the uncomfortable stairs. They were also much more dangerous because of the fires.

Teachers:

Ángel Calle Nayleth Leal Pablo Martínez Laura Bahillo Julia Villalva

Dolores Hernández Mª Victoria Toajas