Nobel Poet Pablo Neruda lived in a house on Isla Negra overlooking the Pacific ocean. The eccentrically designed and constructed house is now a museum containing his works, his collections and a vivid look at the lifestyle of Chile's beloved man of letters.
Visitors expecting a private island, a paradise on the Pacific, are surprised to find Neruda's favored home in modest surroundings, amid dunes in a pine forest, in a village 80 km south of Vaparaiso on the central coast.
Neruda loved the sea and fashioned his house as though it were a ship at sea. Many of the decorations, inside and out, are nautical.