The city of Valparaiso is located at 120 kms. from Santiago (capital city), founded in 1544, its construction began around 1559 in the quarter of the Headquarter. The city adapts to its geography and growths in spontaneous way, turning into a bunch of colored houses that play with the vertigo and gravity, its narrow streets and infinite scales make of this city a hidden jewelry of Latino America. One of the main ports of the country and of the continent, landmark in the old navigation. In Valparaiso breathes the nostalgia that feeds to poets and artists who inhabit its hills, Ruben Darío and Neruda give account of it.
In 2003 the historical mask of the city is declared monument of the humanity by the UNESCO.
A new tradition is taken possession in the place: the cultural carnivals that each year carry out in the last week of December, to give place after to the events are the new years in the port where a show of artificial fires receive the year that begins. We invite you to know this city full of corners, charms and surprises. |