José Estrañi and Grau
Commemoration in Montañeses Studies Center centenary of the death
journalist and writer José Grau Estrañi (Albacete 1840-Santander 1919).
The important journalistic work of José Estrañi in Cantabria can be followed through Voice Montañesa, santanderino newspaper was editor and newspaper El Cantábrico, that would direct from the foundation until his death. The recent addition of both the Digital Library of Historical Press the Ministry of Culture allows access and facilitate content searches stakeholders from various perspectives. incorporated links to print- Historical in order to facilitate the approach to the time and environment José Estrañi and his journalistic figure. The originals of both headers are preserved in the Municipal Library of Santander. In the following lines we incorporate some selected for their curiosity or interest written. Talks between José Estrañi and the statue of Pedro Velarde Two letters to Joseph Estrañi Rado Eduardo Gómez After a few minutes of ten in the morning of the day 22 from
August 1932, the car in which the President of the Republic was traveling, Niceto
Alcala Zamora, arrived at Pablo Iglesias avenue (today Queen Victoria), to inaugurate
the monument to José Estrañi. The owner of El Cantábrico,
Thomas Rivero, and the children and grandchildren of Estrañi. Monument, work of the artist Alfredo Felices, is a semi-circular bench with classic shapes, with a fountain in the middle, on which there was a high relief with the figure of the journalist wrapped in his cape, in bronze, that had been cast in Paris. The plate with the high relief disappeared a few years later, but the source-bank is preserved, with a plaque on which, instead of reproducing the figure of the director of El Cantábrico, you can read: «To the journalist José Estrañi y Grau. 1840-1919. Tribute and memory of the people of Santander. April 1985 » The anniversary of the disappearance of Estrañi, it could be a good opportunity to play plate Alfredo Felices. Albino Alonso Madrazo (Santander, 15/09/1848 – Madrid, 6/01/1898) was a Santander journalist who started his career in Valladolid, where he met and was a friend of José Estrañi. With different fortune that he dedicated a good part of his activity to poetry, dedicating eight verses to his friend in 1875: Years later, When Estrañi and Madrazo were here, he ran a newspaper from Valladolid, that one dedicated a couple of rubbish. On the occasion of the review of a work by Estrañi that had been performed the day before: Two and a half years later he dedicated another to his friend from Santander, encouraging him to return to Santander: I would still dedicate other verses, on a napkin, when Albino was unable to attend a guild banquet due to health reasons. Verses that when published by the local newspapers came out with the title TO OUR DEAR FRIEND ALBINO MADRAZO: Views: 1282
THE MONUMENT TO STRANGE
