CENTRO HARTZENBUSCH

Study and documentation of Spanish romanticism

The study of Romanticism has traditionally enjoyed very little consideration in Spain. Only very recently has the task of rehabilitating this transcendental aesthetic and cultural movement that emerged in the 19th century, largely responsible for the formation of our sensitivity, begun to bear fruit. There is, however, much that remains to be done in a task that has a lot of collective self-knowledge. It is, therefore, to a certain extent illogical that a city like Teruel did not participate in this aspect, for which the universal romantic drama by Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Los Amantes de Teruel, represents the main link of union with the literature enthusiasts of everyone.

This is what the Amantes Foundation has seen with the creation of the Hartzenbusch Center for the study and documentation of romanticism, an initiative whose central objective is precisely the documentation, study and promotion of the cultural movement of romanticism and, by extension, the cultural history of the Spain of the 19th century.