Andalusia The composer Manuel de Falla was from Cádiz and incorporated typical Andalusian melodies in his works, as did Joaquín Turina, from Seville. The great singer Camarón de la Isla was born in San Fernando, Cádiz, and Andrés Segovia who helped shape the romantic-modernist approach to classical guitar, was born in Linares, Jaén. The virtuoso Flamenco guitar player Paco de Lucia who helped internationalize Flamenco, was born in Algeciras, Cadiz. Since the Neolithic era, Andalusia has preserved important megaliths, such as the dolmens at the Cueva de Menga and the Dolmen de Viera, both at Antequera. Archeologists have found Bronze Age
Polo (flamenco palo) for this anthology, singers who knew this song were extremely rare. Since then, it has been recorded by several famous singers, but it has remained in There are several contradictory theories, that have been suggested regarding the origins of the polo and its varieties. The supposed quality of the polo and its pretended quality are but an invention of writers who did not know a word about flamenco singing. Many confused the Spanish or Spanish-American "polo" with the flamenco one, attributing to the latter the popularity of the other (Molina and Mairena [1965] 1979). The following recordings are usually recommended