Machado arrived in Baeza to take possession of the French language chair called, at the time, General and Technical Institute, now the “Santísima Trinidad” Institute.

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POEM FOR A DAY

RURAL MEDITATIONS

(…) This humble teacher

at a rural high school

has always admired you,

oh Rector of Salamanca. (…)

The center is located in what was the Renaissance headquarters of the old University of Baeza, with buildings added over time. The poet occupied a classroom on the ground floor to teach French, which is still intact and can be visited as a classroom-museum. In the classroom-museum, furniture, belongings and documentation related to Machado’s life as a teacher are exhibited: old desks, the teacher’s chair with a brazier (the classroom, like the town, is also damp and cold), wooden coat rack, umbrella…