Victor Hugo Museum House Victor Hugo's House Description

Description

"...a house such as could be seen nowhere else"

Declared a cultural heritage monument in 1964, the Victor Hugo House is a traditional 17th century Pasaia residence.

The house is a three-storey building with a rectangular plan and hipped roof.

The front facade consists of plaster over mortared rubble, while the rear is constructed in ashlar masonry on the lower storey, with dressed stones framing the windows, and plaster over mortared rubble in the upper storeys. The front facade, which faces the sea, features a terrace on the ground floor, and continuous balconies with wooden banisters and four doorways. This facade is ornamented with carved eaves. One part of the rear facade projects over the street, creating a passageway below with wood beam roof and a niche housing a figure of Christ on the cross. A segmental arch decorates one end of the passageway, while the other is lintelled. The upper storeys of the back facade have a series of regularly spaced windows.