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Library of José Saramago's house museum in Tías, Lanzarote, with shelves full of books, leather armchairs and a portrait of the writer in the background

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José Saramago House Museum in Lanzarote

José Saramago · 1922-2010 · Tías, Lanzarote

Would you like to step inside “a house made of books”? Visit the Lanzarote home where José Saramago spent his last 18 years and wrote his last novels.

Schedule

Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 14:00 · Saturdays, 11:00 to 14:00 · Tuesdays and Thursdays also 16:00 to 18:00 · closed on Sundays

Admission

€12 adults · €6 ages 15 to 17 · free up to age 14

Address

A Casa José Saramago, Tías, Lanzarote

Visits

Guided, one hour

The house

A house made of books

Have you read Blindness? Did you know it was written on Lanzarote, among volcanic landscapes? At the José Saramago House Museum, in the village of Tías, you can explore the home where Portugal's only Nobel laureate in Literature spent his last 18 years.

Saramago came to the island with his wife, the journalist Pilar del Río, after the controversy in Portugal over The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. It was love at first sight: on the very day they landed to visit some relatives, they started talking about building their house here, which the writer called “a house made of books”.

Saramago died here in 2010, and nine months later the house opened as a museum. Today you can explore his study, his library and his garden.

Library of José Saramago's house museum in Tías, Lanzarote, with shelves full of books, leather armchairs and a portrait of the writer in the background

The house's library, Saramago's “house made of books”.

What you'll see on the visit

The study

This is where he wrote Blindness. It holds his family photographs, works by the authors he admired and the documents from the Nobel Prize.

The library

Here you'll find his personal book collection and the desk where he wrote his last two novels, The Elephant's Journey and Cain.

The living room, the kitchen and the bedroom

The kitchen holds photographs of the distinguished visitors who came to the house, and it was in the bedroom that the writer died in 2010. Its walls also display works by artists such as César Manrique, Pepe Dámaso, Manolo Millares, Antoni Tàpies and Oscar Niemeyer.

The garden

It has Portuguese olive trees and views of the ocean and the island's volcanic landscape.

Additional information

https://www.civitatis.com/en/tias/casa-jose-saramago-tour/?aid=3577

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