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Day Trip To Pablo Neruda's Home: Isla Negra

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Day Trip To Pablo Neruda 's Home: Isla Negra

Pablo Neruda's Home

Pablo Neruda's Home

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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.

Bonnie Hamre
Guide since 1997

Bonnie Hamre
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