This article reconstructs the lecture tour that Federico García Lorca made through the North of Spain in December 1930, following his prolonged stay in the United States and Cuba. The tour took him through Logroño, San Sebastián, Gijón and Oviedo. In the last city named his talk had to be cancelled due to the political upheaval following on from the failed military coup in Jaca. In his tour Lorca gave two lectures, <em>The Poetic Imagery of Don Luis de Góngora</em>, which although already wellknown, was presented here in a different version, and <em>The Arquitecture of Cante Jondo</em>, which the poet had never delivered before in Spain. The coverage given to these lectures in the local press projected Lorca as a poet increasingly admired b...