Background
Ernesto Guerra Da Cal was born on December 19, 1911, in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain. After his father's early death, his mother went to Madrid to resume her studies, leaving Ernesto in Quiroga, Galicia with his brother, with whom Da Cal always maintained a deep emotional connection. He spent his childhood in Quiroga.
When Da Cal was eleven years old, his mother obtained a teaching post in Madrid, Spain, taking both her children to that city, where Ernesto would live between the ages of eleven and twenty-five.