Day 32 - Hemmingway's Out of Reach

We visited Papa's home, Finca Vigía, in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba. 

He lived there from 1939 to 1960.  Hemingway wrote much of For Whom the Bell Tolls and all of The Old Man and the Sea on these grounds. 

After his suicide, Mary Hemingway deeded the home and its furnishings to the Cuban government.  Later, the U.S. National Trust for Historic Preservation deemed it near collapse.  In 2007, after extensive restoration by the Cuban government, it was reopened in 2007 for tourists. 

The only way to see it is through its open windows and doors.