Finca Vigía, located 15 km from the center of Havana, Capital of Cuba, was the place of residence of the American writer Ernest Hemingway in Cuba from 1940 to 1960, it is also the museum named after him, founded in 1962 and located in San Francisco de Paula neighborhood. The Ernest Hemingway House Museum, which received the National Restoration Award in 2007, is the first institution created to publicize the world of this great novelist, winner in 1954 of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a cozy place, with an extension of between 4 and 6 hectares, an abundant tropical vegetation of around 517 plants where mango trees, pine trees, palm trees and others are included. The property includes, in addition to the residence, a three-story tower, the bungalow, the pool and the beautiful Pilar yacht.
In Finca Vigía the novelist created his greatest works. Here he finished ¨´¨¨ “For hom the bell tolls¨ , a novel about the Spanish Civil War that the writer had covered as a journalist, with his third wife Marta Gellhorn in the late 1930s. It is said that he started it at the Hotel Ambos Mundos, located on Calle Obispo, in Old Havana. Also at the “Finca” he wrote ¨The Old Man and the Sea¨, ¨Islands in the Gulf, ” Paris was a Fiesta,” among others, in addition to many articles for the press. It was actually while he was living in this property that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
