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"As the most direct heirs and relatives of Federico Garcia Lorca, we must express one more time that we do not want his remains to be removed from where they have supposedly laid for more than 70 years," his family said in a letter to the government's justice council.
They also asked, however, to be granted the right to identify his remains and dispose of them if they are found.
The family proposed that the suspected site of his remains, where other mass graves are believed to exist, be declared appropriate for burial.
Lorca "has become a symbol of all the victims because they all had a common fate," the family said, adding that it did not want to "single him out or separate him from the other victims of the repression in Granada."
The poet is believed to have been buried alongside a teacher and two anarchist bullfighters near Granada.
Lorca's descendants have always refused to allow his remains to be exhumed.
Lorca, Spain's most widely acclaimed 20th century poet, was 38 when he was killed. His poems and plays, which deal with universal themes such as love, death, passion, cruelty and injustice, are widely studied at universities.
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They also asked, however, to be granted the right to identify his remains and dispose of them if they are found.
The family proposed that the suspected site of his remains, where other mass graves are believed to exist, be declared appropriate for burial.
Lorca "has become a symbol of all the victims because they all had a common fate," the family said, adding that it did not want to "single him out or separate him from the other victims of the repression in Granada."
The poet is believed to have been buried alongside a teacher and two anarchist bullfighters near Granada.
Lorca's descendants have always refused to allow his remains to be exhumed.
Lorca, Spain's most widely acclaimed 20th century poet, was 38 when he was killed. His poems and plays, which deal with universal themes such as love, death, passion, cruelty and injustice, are widely studied at universities.
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