Hemingway's villa
Finca Vigía was the Cuban home of the writer Ernest Hemingway from 1939 to 1960 and is situated in the working class town of San Francisco de Paula, some 12 miles east of Havana. It was here that he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.
After Hemingway's suicide in 1961, the Cuban government took ownership of the colonial-style property, which sadly fell into a state of neglect and disrepair. Thankfully, restoration and preservation work is well under way, and the house is a government-run museum – and a fascinating, absorbing one at that.
This is Hemingway's dining room.
Hemingway's villa
Finca Vigía was the Cuban home of the writer Ernest Hemingway from 1939 to 1960 and is situated in the working class town of San Francisco de Paula, some 12 miles east of Havana. It was here that he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.
After Hemingway's suicide in 1961, the Cuban government took ownership of the colonial-style property, which sadly fell into a state of neglect and disrepair. Thankfully, restoration and preservation work is well under way, and the house is a government-run museum – and a fascinating, absorbing one at that.
This is Hemingway's dining room.