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La Vigia Hemingway’s House, Havana is one of the most popular Tourist Attractions in Havana. It was the residence of the great North American writer Ernest Hemingway for more than 20 years. La Vigia Hemingway’s House, Havana, preserved the way the Hemingway left it after his last trip, is located in the town San Francisco de Paula, in the suburbs of Havana. You will find here every object, book and furniture kept in the same place he left them, minutely preserved.
La Vigia was that kind of a place where a writer can seek solace and leisure, so necessary for creation. La Vigia was the place where the great writer received his friends, raised his fighting roosters and his cats. La Vigia Hemingway’s House, Havana was the place where he lived his last 22 years. When he settled down in Finca Vigía, he was about to finish “For Whom the Bells Toll”. And, it was here that he wrote "The Old man and the Sea" which won him the Nobel Price in 1954.
Hemingway was quite a sports enthusiast. He practiced boxing in the farm and even, made a baseball team with the kids of the neighborhood. He preferred to write on the three floors tower built specially for him in 1947. On the first floor, he had a room for the cats. There were around 57 of them. Many of them with their own gravestones, lie in a graveyard for the animals, next to the swimming pool. Apart from these, his portable Royal typewriter and nine thousand books which he treasured throughout his life are also part of the collection now.
Hemingway, accompanied by Pauline Pfeiffer, his second wife, arrived in Cuba on the first fortnight of April, 1928. He went to Key West from here and finished “A Farewell to Arms”. Four years later, he came back for leisure in Cuba in 1932. Back again in 1933, he wrote the first of his articles on Cuban themes. Visitors can see at La Vigia Hemingway’s House, Havana his collection of 8000 books placed in a bookshelf. His last correspondence can be seen on the top of his bed and there are heads of African animals hanging on the wall.
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