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Alfonsina and the Sea
Alfonsina Storni (29 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was an Argentine poet of the modernist period.
Around 1:00 AM on Tuesday, 25 October, 1935. Alfonsina left her room and headed towards the sea at La Perla beach in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Later that morning two workers found her body washed up on the beach. Although her biographers hold that she jumped into the water from a breakwater, popular legend is that she slowly walked out to sea until she drowned. She is buried in La Chacarita Cemetery. Her death inspired Ariel Ramírez and Félix Luna to compose the song "Alfonsina y el Mar" ("Alfonsina and the Sea" )
In Switzerland, country of origin of the poet Alfonsina Storni and in the fabled "Victoria Hall" in Geneva, the Argentine soprano Mariana Flores y Argentinian guitarist Quito Gato, interpret "Alfonsina y El Mar", by Ariel Ramírez (1921-2010) & Felix Luna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsina_Storni
