Tertulia

As Tertulia were referred to the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, especially in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century spread Stammtisch -like meeting artistic and / or intellectual order

There is a certain relationship to the literary salon, the majority of the - usually male-dominated - but Tertulias gathered in public places such as bars or cafes, it came to the exchange of books, readings, a certain political and aesthetic congeniality was observed.

Origin

The word is derived from the polemical theologian Tertullian, and is said to have its origins in the literary academies of the Siglo de Oro. In the 18th century were among other famous Academia del tripod in Granada, and the Tertulia de la Fonda de San Sebastián.

Particularly rich in Tertulias was the first third of the 20th century. Mention may be made for Madrid among others, those in the Nuevo Café de Levante and the Café de Fornos; important cafes with Tertulias were also the Café de Gato Negro Or the Colonial Café; José Ortega y Gasset had his Tertulia in La Granja del Henar; there was the cafe Marfil, cafe la Ballena Alegre, where met José Antonio Primo de Rivera and his Falange, the Café del Prado and El Café Español, where the brothers Manuel and Antonio Machado wrong. Up to the time after the Spanish Civil War Tertulias took place at the Café Gijón.

Tertulias there were in the province. In Salamanca, the Café Novelty since 1905, for example, met writers such as Miguel de Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, Carmen Martín Gaite, Francisco Umbral and Torrente Ballester.