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. See map with information about Isla Negra, in Spanish.
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.
