Today is Friday of Dolores and it is the saint of Dolores, Lolita, Lola. It has been the day chosen to inaugurate the Lola Flores Cultural Center, in Jerez de la Frontera. The city of Cádiz has hosted an act of celebration and memory for the “immortal artist”, to inaugurate her museum.
Most of her family has come to Jerez for this emotional moment, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Lola Flores. There were the two daughters, Lolita and Rosario, her sister Carmen, and her granddaughter Alba, Antonio’s daughter, as well as other members of her family, “a lineage of artists,” Rosario said.
Elena, Lolita’s actress daughter, could not attend due to professional commitments, but has lent her voice to the self-guide of the cultural center, which opens its doors to the public this afternoon.
The mayoress of Jerez, Mamen Sánchez, hastening her second term, who has been the promoter, with her municipal team, of making this center a reality, did not want to miss the event. As well as the representative of the Flowers, Mariola Orellana, the other great architect who has made the museum possible.
Maria del Monte, Antonio Carmona and his daughter Marina, the dancer Antonio el Pipa, the singer Tomasito and his mother Bastiana, el Pelé, have also passed along the red carpet for great occasions, in front of the old Nave del Aceite, now the center’s headquarters. de Navajita Plateá, the women of the Peña TÃo José de Paula and Macanita, among others.
When the plate was discovered, the very young arrow maker LucÃa Aliaño sang A tu vera. Among the public that has come to the Plaza de Belén, Noelia, a neighbor of the Galician town of Ce, on the Costa da Morte, has dragged her husband and mother-in-law to Jerez, as she is a big fan of the whole family of artists.
Likewise, Juan, a resident of Jerez born in Chiclana, wore some paintings with photographs dedicated by Lola Flores, her husband, Antonio González el Pescadilla, her sister Carmen and her husband Isidro Sánchez, the parents of soccer player Quique Sánchez Flores.
