Neruda's House in Cerro Los Lecheros in Valparaiso

Photo credit: Hector Gonzalez de Cunco

In his Memoirs, Neruda speaks of his people and the house where he was
given shelter in Los Lecheros on the shores of Valparaiso’s hills. He writes: "I ​​was confined to a piece of room and a corner window where I was watching harbor’s life.  From that tiny window my eyes covered only a fragment of the street. At night I saw people moving fast. It was a poor
suburb in a little street, a hundred feet below my window, it monopolized all the lighting in the neighborhood. Small stores and bowling alleys filled it. " Today the house looks great on its facade a large plaque, which reads: "Here Pablo Neruda wrote in 1948 the Canto General"

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