I was not very familar with Pablo Neruda before visiting Chile. That changed with our visit to Valparaiso and later at the Isla Negra. La Sebastiana is a former residence of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. It is built in four levels and has a nautical theme, the highest, is the captain's command post. The house in named for the architect who built the home. It has a maze of twisting stairways, curvaceous walls, vivid colors and a pink and blue bar.
Neruda was a compulsive collector of wonderful artifacts - including a horse from a caras found at flea markets and auctions around the world. Pablo Neruda was quite a character; poet, diplomat, architect, bon vivant and probably Chile's most famous native son. It's the only one of his three houses that visitors can wander around at will. In addition to the usual assemblage of oddball artifacts within the house, the Fundación Neruda has built a Centro Cultural La Sebastiana alongside it, with rotating exhibitions, a café, a souvenir shop and a stained-glass workshop.
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