Avenida La Marina 2153, Iquitos, Peru
Forest & Film
Casa Fitzcarraldo is a house where the forest and film meet.
Our Story
Located in the historic house where Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo was produced, La Casa Fitzcarraldo is today a small hotel and tropical garden in the heart of the Amazonian city of Iquitos.
Surrounded by one of the few remaining green spaces in the urban center, the house welcomes travelers, filmmakers, researchers and artists interested in the cultures and landscapes of the Amazon.
In the coming years, La Casa Fitzcarraldo hopes to grow into a space where filmmakers, artists, researchers and travelers can meet, exchange ideas and reflect on the relationship between storytelling and the living forest.
For many years, Casa Fitzcarraldo has also quietly acted as an informal urban forest refuge in the city of Iquitos. While much of the city has lost its trees to rapid urban expansion, the house has chosen a different path: cultivating and protecting a living forest within its 3,000-square-meter garden.
Today the property remains one of the rare green spaces in the city center, where large trees, birds and shade still shape daily life. Beyond the house itself, the project also extends to small forest lots along the Iquitos–Nauta road, where the intention is to continue protecting and regenerating Amazonian vegetation.
Maintaining these green spaces in a growing city is not without challenges. Yet Casa Fitzcarraldo continues to stand as a small but persistent gesture in favor of living trees and the ecological imagination of the Amazon.
By staying at Casa Fitzcarraldo, guests help sustain this effort and support a place where forest, culture and hospitality coexist in the heart of the city.