
La Residencia de Estudiantes, the “Student Residence”, is one of the original Spanish cultural centers in Madrid.
During the first half of 1900s, it was a prestigious cultural institution that helped foster and create the intellectual environment of Spain’s brightest young thinkers, writers, and artists such as painter Salvador Dalí, poet Federico García Lorca and filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
Portrait of Luis Bunuel by Salvador Dalí, 1924
Happy Birthday, Luis Bunuel (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983)
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Salvador Dalí, José Moreno Villa, Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca and José Antonio Rubio Sacristán met at the Oxbridge inspired Residencia De Estudiantes, Madrid, 1926.
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![Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali, circa 1930
“As a young man, [Salvador] Dali was totally asexual, and forever making fun of friends who fell in love or ran after women - until the day he lost his virginity to Gala & wrote me a 6-page letter detailing, in his own inimitable way, the pleasures of carnal love. (Gala’s the only woman he ever really made love to. Of course, he’s seduced many, particularly American heiresses; but those seductions usually entailed stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman’s shoulders, and, without a word, showing them to the door.)”
From Luis Buñuel’s autobiography, My Last Sigh](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky7zmg5iDW1qzdvhio1_400.jpg)
Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali, circa 1930
“As a young man, [Salvador] Dali was totally asexual, and forever making fun of friends who fell in love or ran after women - until the day he lost his virginity to Gala & wrote me a 6-page letter detailing, in his own inimitable way, the pleasures of carnal love. (Gala’s the only woman he ever really made love to. Of course, he’s seduced many, particularly American heiresses; but those seductions usually entailed stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman’s shoulders, and, without a word, showing them to the door.)”
From Luis Buñuel’s autobiography, My Last Sigh