Amaia Aberasturi and Yon González will star in ‘Beguinas’, the new production by Buendía Estudios for Antena 3

‘Beguinas’ is the new Antena 3 series for the prime time. The fiction will also be available on ATRESplayer PREMIUM.

‘Beguinas’, which will consist of ten episodes of 50 minutes each, is inspired in the beguinages, communities of women who, from the 13^th century onwards, defended an alternative way of life apart from marriage and the Church. The beguines were dedicated to contemplation, but also to action, through craft work, teaching or caring for the sick that brought benefits to society while allowing them to be self-sufficient. The beguinages were places of association and freedom that, despite having popular support, were highly questioned by power.

‘Beguinas’ takes as a reference the history of these women, which has remained hidden over the centuries.

The actors Amaia Aberasturi and Yon González will star in the fiction. They will play, respectively,  Lucía de Avellaneda and Telmo Medina, two young people who will overcome the social impositions of the time and who will risk everything for love in a context that is not favourable to them.

‘Beguinas’ is a production by Atresmedia TV in collaboration with Buendía Estudios. Montse García, Sonia Martínez and Amparo Miralles are the executive producers of this fiction by the Series Atresmedia hallmark, that will be directed by Rómulo Aguillaume and Claudia Pinto.

The script will be overseen by Irene Rodríguez, Esther Morales, Silvia Arribas and Virginia Llera. Marta de Miguel is the Production Director, Iván Caso is the Cinematographer and Jorge de Soto the Art Director. Bubi Escobar will be the Costume Designer, whereas Makeup and Hairstyling will be directed by Mariló Serrano and Fermín Galán, respectively. Juan León is the Casting Director.

‘Beguinas’ will start shooting in the following weeks in locations of Madrid and Segovia.

This is ‘Beguinas’

Segovia, 1559. Lucía de Avellaneda celebrates her engagement party with the Marquis of Peñarrosa, a nobleman chosen by her brother. This marriage promises to strengthen the financial and social status of the family, but, in the middle of the celebration, the fiancée receives an unexpected letter from a woman who claims to be her mother and asks her to come to her deathbed.

Lucía shows up in the beguinage, where her mother has summoned her. In this place, she lives with other women independently and apart from the Church.

The young woman opens up to a new world that will make her question everything she had known so far. In addition, she will know love through a pure and unstoppable passion, though forbidden. She will risk everything for Telmo, a Jewish man that must hide his beliefs and his past.

Amaia Aberasturi will become Lucía de Avellaneda

Intelligent, curious and combative. Polite and innocent, until her mother calls her and changes her world. In the beguinage she discovers a sorority and critical thinking environment that revolves her idea of the world and breaks the walls that her condition as a Christian noble woman had imposed on her.

When she meets Telmo, she feels for the first time an attraction that she has never lived, but her commitment and loyalty will refrain her impulses, determined to fight for what matters.

Yon González will become Telmo Medina

Telmo is an attractive, lucid and mysterious young man who hides his Jewish origins. He works at a bakery and supplies the beguinage with what they need from the outside. He doesn’t want troubles, but he doesn’t dodge them either. When he meets Lucía and remembers her from his childhood, he decides to keep quiet about it and avoid the danger of being identified.

Loyal, sincere and upright, he cannot avoid rejecting the marriage that his friend proposes to him and risking everything for a woman who, in addition to being a Christian, belongs to a noble family who is the owner of the lands that were taken from his ancestors.

He dreams of a future in a place called the New World, where he can live his love and beliefs in freedom.