The British writer Gerald Brenen, in love with La Alpujarra, settled in this town. He was known in town as Don Gerardo and after staying in a boarding house that is still in operation, he went on to rent a house now called the Casa del Inglés.

About Yegen, Brenen wrote:
“There was something about the place that appealed to me. It was a poor village, high above the sea, with an immense panorama in front of it. Its gray cube-shaped houses, in jagged Le Corbusier style, swooping down the hillside and clinging to each other, with their flat clay roofs and small smoky chimneys, suggested something built by insects.

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