The Museo Hemingway Finca Vigia, or ‘lookout house’, is a lovely Moorish house in Havana’s working-class suburb of San Francisco de Paula, which Hemingway first rented with his third wife Martha Gellhorn and purchased in 1940. The house is located on a hill with magnificent views of Havana and the bay.

Hemingway was well liked by his neighbors - he went fishing with them and taught the kids to play baseball on his property. He wrote nine of his novels in Finca Vigía, including two of his most popular – The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls. He lived in Finca Vigía until 1960, when he left Cuba.

Calle Obispo 153 | Carretera Central Km 12.5, Havana 10100, Cuba, website, Phone: 537-891-0809

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