García Lorca left Madrid for his fa

García Lorca left Madrid for his family home in Granada only three days before the Spanish Civil War broke out (July 1936).[23] The Spanish political and social climate had greatly intensified after the murder of prominent monarchist and anti-Popular Front spokesman José Calvo Sotelo by Republican Assault Guards (Guardia de Asalto).[27] García Lorca knew that he would be suspect to the rising right wing for his outspoken liberal views.[23] On 18 August, his brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the leftist mayor of Granada, was shot. Lorca was arrested that same afternoon.[28]
It is thought that García Lorca was shot and killed by Nationalist militia[29][30] on 19 August 1936.[31] The author Ian Gibson in his book The Assassination of García Lorca alleges that he was shot with three others (Joaquin Arcollas Cabezas, Francisco Galadi Mergal and Dioscoro Galindo Gonzalez) at a place known as the Fuente Grande, or Great Fountain in Spanish, which is on the road between Viznar and Alfacar.[32]