Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban home lies 10 miles east of Havana. Named Finca Vigía, which means “lookout house”, it is in the town of San Francisco de Paula, a modest town full of working-class people. Hemingway enjoyed fishing and interacting with the town’s people and was well-respected. The home was built in 1886 by Miguel Pascual y Baguer, a Spanish architect, and Hemingway purchased it in 1940. Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea during his time at FincaVigía. The Cuban government took ownership of the home and property after Hemingway’s death in 1961. It is on the World Monuments Fund List of 100 Most Endangered sites and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 Most Endangered Places. Preservation work is now taking place on the home after years of neglect.

Finca Vigía Km. 12 ½, La Habana, Cuba, Phone: 53-76-91-08-09

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