One day after the death of María del Carmen García Galisteo, better known as Carmen Sevilla, the reactions do not stop happening. To her relatives, friends, colleagues and admirers of the Seville actress The mayor of his hometown, José Luis Sanz Ruiz, has joined today.
The brand new mayor, in office since the municipal elections of May 28, has intervened in the program Y ahora Sonsoles to announce what will be the next measures that the Consistory will carry out to pay tribute to “the bride of Spain”: put a street in the city and name it ‘Favorite Daughter’ of it.
“Seville will put a street for Carmen Sevilla. I was very surprised, because yesterday when I commented on it I took it for granted that there was a street here. But incomprehensibly, the city in which she was born, from which she chose her last name and where she filmed her first film I had not put any street on it ”, the mayor explained live. The time to do so will be the first ordinary plenary session held by the City Council.
In addition to making a place for her on the city map, Carmen Sevilla will posthumously receive the appointment of Favorite Daughter of Seville on May 30, 2024, the day of San Fernando. When the tribute is consumed she will join a list with illustrious names such as Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, María Zambrano, Antonio Gala, Felipe González, Antonio Banderas or Joaquín Sabina, among others.
An age that is not real
Although it has always been said that Carmen Sevilla was born in October 1930, the truth is that she was born a year later. In one of the most relevant curiosities surrounding the life of the ill-fated interpreter, Carmen put on a year more to get the card of the National Syndicate of the Show.
