Mansion of La Sebastiana (La Sebastiana) description and photos - Chile: Valparaiso (Topic)

Mansion La Sebastiana description and photos - Chile: Valparaiso. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is La Sebastiana.

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La Sebastian's mansion is one of three houses that belonged to the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). This house, located in Cerro Florida in Valparaiso, attracts with its unusual architecture and magnificent views of the bay from its windows. Like the other two houses of the great poet, La Chascona in Santiago and Cassa de Isla Negra, it is a museum under the Pablo Neruda Foundation.

This house was designed and erected by the Spanish builder Sebastian Collado, intending to spend in him in the last years of his life. But the construction was interrupted due to his sudden death. After his death, the unfinished building was inherited by the family, who did not know what to do with it. In 1959, the house was sold to Pablo Neruda.

The original four-story structure of the building has been slightly altered and an attic has been added. Famous artists Francisco Velasco and Maria Martner painted the walls of this building in the form of a map of Patagonia. The windows of the house offer a magnificent view of the bay and the coast.

The small museum has many interesting exhibits and photographs related to Pablo Neruda: sets of dishes with balloons, all kinds of nautical charts, antique stained-glass windows, stuffed birds brought from Venezuela, Great Italian Dinner Set Used For Dinner Parties, Painting. The walls of the building are painted in pink, blue, yellow, green, purple. Large dormers give the structure the look of a ship that miraculously found itself on the shore.

The grand opening of the house in 1961 coincided with Chile's Independence Day celebrations. After the completion of construction, the poet spent a whole year in this mansion, as well as the last year of his life. Every day spent in this house, Pablo Neruda made for himself special.

After the death of the poet in 1973, during the military dictatorship, the house was abandoned. In 1991 it was decided to reconstruct the building. A year later it opened its doors to the public as a house-museum of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. In 2012, the house was included in the list of national monuments of Chile.

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