One of three houses Pablo Neruda built in Chile — the Bellavista home he designed for his third wife Matilde Urrutia is a rambling, eccentric structure stuffed with maritime objects, bar equipment, and the collections of a man who spent his life acquiring things as enthusiastically as he wrote poems. The most personal and most revealing of Neruda's three houses.
Why It’s Worth Your Time
La Chascona is the most intimate of Pablo Neruda's three properties and the best introduction to his extraordinary character — a house that began as a secret love nest for the poet and Matilde Urrutia and grew over decades into a labyrinth of connected rooms at different levels, each filled with ships' figureheads, stained glass, bar paraphernalia, and the collections of an obsessive accumulator. The Fundación Pablo Neruda runs guided tours in multiple languages.
What Stands Out
- Pablo Neruda's Bellavista home
- Most personal of his three houses
- Maritime collections, stained glass, bar equipment
- Guided tours in English
- Bellavista
- Book ahead on weekends