They specify the delivery of land to the company in charge of the restoration of the Casa Gabriela Mistral de Las Compañías

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In this place, at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, the poet's first writings emerged, she began her teaching career as an assistant at the local School and there she fell in love for the first time.

This week the delivery of land to the company “Proyectos y Rehabilitación KALAM SA” was completed for the corresponding work installation and start of the execution of the restoration project of the Casa Gabriela Mistral de Las Compañías, a National Historical Monument located next to the Mistraliano Center from the University of La Serena.

The project, financed by the Regional Government, through the IDB program of “Enhancing Heritage, will have the Directorate of Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works as the technical unit in charge of ensuring the correct enhancement of the housing that Our Nobel Prize winner in Literature lived there.

mistral house2Regarding the importance of the restoration of this house, the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, expressed that the beginning of the works is a source of pride for the University, “a study house that has been working for almost 30 years "the appreciation of the life and work of Gabriela Mistral."

While the Director of the ULS Mistralian Center, Dr. Rolando Manzano, who had already published an article in 1988 pointing out the importance of rescuing this home, stated that “many times people do not know the value of this house, here Gabriela began her career as a teacher and writer, here she became an intellectual through her articles in the press, and fell in love with Alfredo Videla. “This is the most important milestone in the Mistralian world, at least in Chile.”

The restoration of this house, built simply with adobe and wooden elements, will have an investment of $732 million, and the works are expected to be completed within the next 540 days.