La Sebastiana (Pablo Neruda's House) Valparaiso

We decided to visit Valparaiso following numerous recommendations from other travellers that we met mostly in San Pedro de Atacama. Given their rave reviews of this beautiful coastal town, we changed our plans and caught a bus 2 hours north of Santiago instead of heading south to Pucon – big mistake!

Valparaiso is a little naval …

Valparaiso is like the black sheep of the family, whose list of character flaws are so well known by all the relatives that there is no need to make an effort at pretending to be more genteel. In actual fact, Valparaiso has come into its own, but hasn't quite realized it. This city is vibrant, self-deprecating and oh-so-likeable.

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Beautiful sunny day, hills to walk for exercise, excellent graffiti on the streets, great food, great hostel we´re staying in. going out tonight for what should be excellent seafood in the downtown port area around by the Mercado Puerto, a bit more rustic and down to earth, rather than the fancy restaurants of Cerro Conception. then we´ll prob hit …

27/04/2011 - Tomamos o café da manhã às 9:30 h. Pouco depois saimos em direção a Valparaíso. Percorremos os 10 Km rapidamente e em Valparaiso deixamos o carro no estacionamento por baixo do Monumento aos Heróis do Chile. Tentamos ir caminhando e conhecendo as principais atrações. O nosso objetivo era chegar à La Sebastiana, uma das tres casas de …

... right track. Fifteen minutes or so after emerging from the ascensor, we suddenly arrive outside Neruda´s house. This one is called La Sebastiana, and was where he lived with his second wife. We enjoyed seeing his house in Santiago, La Chascona, so ...

... more like vertical trolley cars) and for featuring one of (poet and national hero) Pablo Neruda's three Chilean homes, La Sebastiana. It is also a hotbed of kite flying, perhaps because of steady sea breezes, and the streets are full of ...

... . Valparaiso is a very colourful town with a surprise around every corner, and also houses one of Pablo Neruda's homes fondly know as La Sebastiana. I didn't know this before, but he was a very famous Chilean poet born in 1904. You can literally walk for ...

... we all wanted to go back home and start building rooms and decorate them Pablo style.... We also visited his house, La Sebastiana, in Valparaiso and another one in Santiago. They had great views and were impressive but nothing compared to Isla Negra. ...

... suggestions - it was fantastic to hear about other people’s experiences in the continent. The following day we headed to La Sebastiana - one of the famous houses of the Chilean poet and Nobel prize winner Pablo Neruda. His house was an eclectic ...

... Lucie cette fois-ci. Je ne me lasse pas de marcher dans ces petites rue en pente. Cette fois nous pouvons rentrer visiter la "Sebastiana", maison de Pablo Neruda. C'est une immense maison décorée comme un bateau tout en bois verni. Ses gouts sont ...

... ville d'une des trois maisons de Pablo Neruda, le cél''bre poète chilien, Prix Nobel de Littérature. La maison s'appelle La Sebastiana (en hommage à son architecte) et est fabuleuse. Elle n'impressionne pas par sa taille - c'est une maison plutôt ...

... Espiritu Santo is sadly defunct so it gave us a good workout!) to the Museo al Aire Libre (Open Air Museum) and to 'La Sebastiana', the house of Chilean poet, Nobel Prize winner and national treasure, Pablo Neruda. The 'museum' is actually a series of ...

... in bottles, bowsprits from old sailing ships - mermaids, admirals, etc., you name it, he collected it! Although much larger than La Sebastiana, with all the collections of flotsam and jetsam, there was not much room for people and the tour guide kept us ...

... to have been rebuilt several times due to earthquakes, fires, and, oddly enough, pirate raids. Pablo Neruda had a home here, called La Sebastiana. He named all three of his homes after women. One of the things that interests me in foreign travel is the ...