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Ernest Hemingway Home and
Museum
You can see where one of America’s best-known writers lived
and worked at the Hemingway Home, which is a registered National
Historic Landmark. Ernest Hemingway, who won both the Nobel and
Pulitzer prices, lived in this Spanish colonial villa from 1931
to 1940. He owned the home until his death in 1961. The author wrote
many of his best-known works in the second-story writing studio
adjoining the house. Among those books: “For Whom the Bell
Tolls” and “The Green Hills of Africa.” The home’s
furnishings and atmosphere evoke the Hemingway era. The area’s
first swimming pool can be found behind the house. Hemingway’s
wife, Pauline, had it built as a surprise to her husband off covering
the Spanish Civil War. Guides tell visitors that when he learned
the pool cost $20,000, Hemingway fished out a penny and angrily
tossed it to the ground, saying she had spent his last cent. Pauline
had enough of a sense of humor to have the coin imbedded in the
pool, where it can be seen by visitors.
Guided tours are offered throughout the day. And an added attraction
is to make friends with some of the many six-toed cats that roam
the grounds.
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