Vega Baja Acoge

“Rosario the Dynamiter”

2017

Plaza de San Isidro

This mural is devoted to Rosario Sánchez Mora, a militia women of the republican front in the Spanish Civil War, best known as ”The Dynamiter”. She is remembered in a black solid form to the right of the mural. Miguel Hernández wrote a poem for her titled “Rosario the Dynamiter” and the last stanza is written on the right. The painting is also a tribute to María Luisa Andreu, an active volunteer of Vega Baja Acoge, the association that authored the mural, who used to recite with great intensity and emotion this poem.

Rosario the dynamiter
In your beautiful hand
Dynamite liked to conceal
The wild beast within.
Who would think, upon seeing her,
Such despair lurking
In her heart, made of
Glass and shrapnel,
So greedy for battle,
A thirst for an explosion.

Your right hand
Could smell lions,
It was the flower of munitions
And the longing of the fuse.
Rosario the good harvest,
Tall as a belfry,
You sowed the dynamite fury
In the enemy’s camp,
And your hand was
A raging rose, Rosario.