José Ángel Valente, was a great poet, translator and essayist known for his works and reflections on art, the human being and the origin of life.

After a long time of having lived in different cities of Europe as a translator and poet in Spanish literature and English literature, he lived in Almería

In Almería, the

House of the Poet José Ángel Valente has become a museum and interpretive space of the life and work of the poet, in the years in which he lived in Almería, which he considered as his adopted city.

Therefore, In 2015 this building was inaugurated to fulfill the desire that it become a space for citizens to rediscover poetry.