In the garden of the Casa de Isla Negra, on a small terrace facing the Pacific, lie Pablo Neruda and his third wife Matilde Urrutia. The simple grave is part of the standard museum visit and is the place the poet asked to be buried — though it took nineteen years after his death in 1973 for the dictatorship to allow his wish.
The headstones are unadorned: just two names and dates, with the sound of the surf below. Visitors often leave small stones or flowers. Read the poem "Disposiciones" from Canto General before you come — it is essentially Neruda dictating his own funeral instructions, and the spot you are standing on is the result.