Amelia del Realejo

"Amelia del Realejo" Calle Conde de San Cecilio 9, Granada by El Niño de las Pinturas #granada
 
This is what her son says about her
The whole neighborhood knew who she was, but few knew her exactly. Amelia del Realejo, a nickname that accompanied her until her death in January 2018 at the age of 80, was one of the area's best-known neighbors. 

She visited bars and terraces with inexhaustible joy, selling her prints in which she appeared young and less young. Amelia especially visited the Bar Candela and the restaurant Hicuri. 
She came from Seville in Triana, she sold flowers on the Bib-Rambla, she lived alone and received postcards from abroad from the most diverse people she met during her visit to Granada.

"She was a real original! She loved her neighborhood, but she was known throughout the city, she got along with politicians and workers. Granada has been everything to her since she came here more than 50 years ago after marrying a man from Granada. And the Realejo was his spirit, his way of life," explains her son Paco, also a resident of the neighborhood.

"Letters reached him from all over the world, including from important personalities, and he kept photos he took, for example, with the King and Queen of Belgium," Recalls Paco. "She felt like an artist and she was. That gave him life.

Although Amelia has left this world, she has not left her neighborhood forever. The ultimate graffiti artist from Realejo, El Niño de las Pinturas, with whom he shared a mutual affection, dedicated his work, his balcony and his geraniums to him. Her print with the inscription "Amelia forever" will from now on greet everyone who goes up the Pavaneras towards Gran Vía: "I was very happy to see this graffiti.

There's my mother's vivid look, I can see it every day as if I saw her leaning out of the balcony, and everyone reminds me of it every time she walks past that wall. She still lives in the neighborhood," her son concludes.