Casa Fernando Pessoa

Casa Fernando Pessoa, in Lisbon, occupies the writer’s last home, where he lived with his family from 1920 until a few days before his death on 30 November 1935. The building was acquired by Lisbon City Council in the late 1980s, when it was in poor condition, and opened to the public on 30 November 1993. Rebuilt while preserving original elements, the House keeps personal objects, some furniture and a large part of the books that belonged to Pessoa. The long-term exhibition is organised around memory, literary creation, reading and home. Across three floors, it presents the heteronyms, documents, works of art and the Private Library, classified as a National Treasure. More than preserving a reconstructed bedroom, the House shows how reading nourished one of the most plural literary works of the 20th century.