Pablo Neruda’s House

By kbartz34

I am not sure if Pablo Neruda, a famed Chilean poet, is romanticized more for his poetry or his incredible homes. The pictures included in this week's post are from his home overlooking the bay in Valparaiso. The upside of traveling with a Study Abroad Agency? Personalized tours of places like this! "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." - Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Garden perspective — Part of the reason Pablo Neruda's house is so beloved is for its spacious gardens in the midst of a crowded city.

Layers — This house is delicately stacked with four floors. The architecture is especially impressive considering Chile's regular earthquakes and tremors.

Casual neighbors — One of the many homes nestled into one of the "cerros" (or hills) that make up Valparaiso.

Although Pablo Neruda died in 1973, his house has been maintained the way he left it. Including the details of flowers poking through the bramble.

It is amazing how close the group of students I am traveling with is already! None of us knew each other 3 weeks ago! Crazy what Chile will do for a friendship