Powell's City of Books
El literary tourism It is a form of cultural tourism that takes place in places related to the events of fictional texts or famous authors. On this occasion we will show you some of the most outstanding places to practice it. Let's start traveling towards Portland, in Oregon, United States, where you can visit Powell's City of Books, considered the largest bookstore in the world. You can also visit the Heathman Hotel Library, where you will find 4.000 volumes of books signed by guest authors.
Now let's head to Washington DC, in the United States, where we can visit the Library of Congress, founded in 1800, and considered the largest library in the world. A free guided tour of this grandiose building illuminates its literary and architectural significance. You can also go to your local independent bookstores where you can sit down with a group for a literary discussion.
En Melbourne, Australia, we can visit the State Library of Victoria, built in the mid-1800s.
En Santiago, capital of Chile, we can visit La Chascona, where the poet Pablo Neruda lived. The blue and yellow house is located in the Bellavista neighborhood. In Santiago we can also appreciate the mural on Cerro Santa Lucía, which honors Gabriela Mistral.
Finally we can finish the tour in San Petersburgo, where you can take the route of the murderer Raskonikov, the protagonist of the play Crime and Punishment, which leads us to Fyodor Dostoevsky's own house. We also have the opportunity to visit the Aleksandr Pushkin House Museum, where you can know the exact place where the author died at the early age of 37 years.
More information: Destinations for literary tourism
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