Cara al Sol Cara al Sol Cara al Sol ("") is the anthem of the Falange Española de las JONS. The lyrics were written in December 1935 and are usually credited to the leader of the Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The music was composed by Juan Tellería and Juan R. Buendia. The circumstances of its creation are unusual. The Falangists needed a stirring song of their own to counter the popular appeal of "El Himno de Riego" (the official anthem of the Second Spanish Republic) and "A las barricadas" (a very popular Anarchist song). To solve the problem, Primo de Rivera
José Antonio Primo de Rivera magazines such as "La Nación", "Blanco y Negro", "ABC", or in the Falangist press, "F.E." or "Arriba" among others, Primo de Rivera expressed a fondness for poetry to poet and novelist Jose-Maria Peman in a letter he wrote late in the spring of 1931. How I wish that one could live in a liveable country where there were a greater number of good poets and a very much greater amount of good manners! He wrote the occasional poem and left behind eight extant rhymes composed before the start of his parliamentary career in 1933. "The Prophecy of Magellan" is an