Santiago Trip Overview
We will spend an incredible day learning more about the life and work of one of the most prominent poets and influential artists of the twentieth century. Pablo Neruda, don’t miss it!
We will explore three of his houses, today became as museums, located in Isla Negra, Valparaiso and Santiago. Three particular and uniques building where the poet kept his privacy and spent his time writing the most beautiful poems.
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Duration: 10 hours
Starts: Santiago, Chile
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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We will spend an incredible day learning more about the life and work of one of the most prominent poets and influential artists of the twentieth century. Pablo Neruda, don’t miss it!
We will explore three of his houses, today became as museums, located in Isla Negra, Valparaiso and Santiago. Three particular and uniques building where the poet kept his privacy and spent his time writing the most beautiful poems.
Stop At: Isla Negra, Isla Negra, Valparaiso Region
Being picked up by your private guide at your centrally hotel in Santiago to start our tour heading to the first Pablo Neruda’s house in Isla Negra. This place was originally called “Las Gaviotas” however, The poet renamed it as Isla Negra because of the color of its rocks and perhaps because it could be the perfect place to writing and being alone.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: La Sebastiana, Ricardo De Ferrari 692, Valparaiso 2381661 Chile
We will continue to Valparaiso for knowing La Sebastiana. This beautiful house located on the Florida hill has an incredible view of the harbor bay.
The house was seeked by his friends for Neruda, when he decided to have a place in Valparaiso, it seemed difficult to find since Neruda had been quite explicit in his request, however, the ideal house for our lonely poet existed, it had been built by the Spanish Sebastian Collado, who assigned the entire third floor to an aviary. Don Sebastian died in 1949 and that unfinished house full of stairs was abandoned for many years until Neruda arriving.
“La Sebastiana” was looted after the 1973 military coup and was restored and opened as a museum in 1991, today keep the most beaultiful relics of the port and curious pieces, such as music boxes, an old carved out of wood horse, paintings and Neruda’s soul.
Duration: 3 minutes
Stop At: Casa Museo La Chascona, Fernando Maquez de la Plata 0192, Santiago Chile
After visiting La Sebastiana, we will take a tour of Viña del Mar and have time for lunch (lunch not included). Once the tour of the area is finished, we will return to Santiago de Chile to see the last Museum house, “La Chascona” where we will stay until 4:30 pm or 5:00 pm, then return to our selected hotels.
“La Chascona” was built and decorated by Neruda with his lover Matilde Urrutia and the Catalan architect Germán Rodríguez Arias in 1953. Neruda participated actively in every detail, in fact much of the design was his own.
Inside, an interesting art gallery is preserved, with works by Chilean and foreign painters of all times, even by the famous muralist Diego Rivera. There is also a collection of African wood carvings and another of furniture and specially objects selected by Neruda, as his dining room, with the original crockery and cutlery.
Duration: 3 hours
