The House of the Spirits: the true story of the mansion that was home to several embassies

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The House of the Spirits: the true story of the mansion that was home to several embassies

It is not Edgar Allan Poe's House Usher, nor the house where El conjuro was filmed, nor the mansion where Nicole Kidman was in Los os os. This property that looks like the scenery of a terror blockbuster is the famous Quinta Heeren, a house of Barrios Altos, in Lima, Peru, which between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century was home to several embassies: from the United States to Japan, to those of Germany, Belgium a…