The narrator visits a small Spanish village whose name has achieved literary renown and recounts a twilight encounter when an old Basque pronounces that name, provoking an intense emotional response. He contemplates the contrast between local indifference and the name's artistic glory, vows a modest pilgrimage to honor its anniversary, and wanders streets where ordinary people and details evoke characters and scenes from the drama. Through lyrical landscape description and intimate observation, the piece blurs memory and fiction and reflects on how art inhabits places, daily life, and the poet's own longing for a simple homage.