Full-Day Valparaíso Private Tour with Vehicle

state were still united. After the implementation of personal IDs and religious tolerance, an era of conservative traditions was about to be left behind. Dominating the upper position of "Cerro Concepción", allows us to see the first sights of Valparaíso Street art and Architecture. The neighborhood used to be the upper part of town, residence of wealthy people, European investors many of them, could afford to have designed residences, earthquake proof for their time. The nineteenth century had been benevolent with those who formed part of a cosmopolitan Valparaíso, city of mixed nationalities and languages. It went from five thousand inhabitants, after independency, to more than one hundred thousand by the early twenty century; when the inauguration of the Panamá canal and german synthesize of nitrate for fertilization and explosive making, made Valparaiso's, and Chile's economy crumble.

Valparaiso Street Art

“Graffiti” can be a derogative term for some, meaning “scratches on the wall made with spay cans” or a complementary one, meaning “planned art on the wall with an abstract message and skilled graphic work”and hence the controversy and interest about these topi, which makes Valparaíso, and Concepción hill, the perfect spot for admiring, taking pictures, making selfies with the most interesting motives that your eye and/or camera lense might capture. Walking down Templeman Street, we pass several forms of graphic expression on the walls. We shall get to a most street intersection, between by local Inn “Hostal Patrimonio”, unknowingly we might be standing on top of famous Graffiti “We are not Hippies, We are Happies”, existing from 2014 that can be seen from the lower angle of street San Enrique, from the walk sides-stairs of Templeman Street that by that length has become a downhill pedestrian, where a natural flower garden can be found as we walk down street.

Some street alleys are a dead ends, go in and out; go under the building level, show you the way around and some allow us gaze away and connect with nowadays and historic affairs. Dimalow promenade does it all. After a twist to the right coming from uphill, we past several coffee and sandwich shops, including best known cafetería “Entre Cerros”, among icecream shops and handicraft makers-vendor we “dive” into one of the most iconic views of Valparaíso, past hotel-restaurant “Fauna” we shall admire one of the most interesting slides in the city (watch it, it’s somehow steep), from which we can admire, at a glaze, from left to right the Anglican church of Saint Paul, the former German School and current Museum of Immigrant, the Lutheran church of the Holy cross and sigth of Valparaíso bay and Viña del Mar, next Reina Victoria elevator crowns our visit as we encounter the stairs that walk up the courageous ones who slid. We walk back the same way we came as there is more to discover.