Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Valparaíso, Chile
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2.4 km
154 m
Explore Valparaíso in Chile with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in ValparaísoIndividual Sights in ValparaísoSight 1: Vicente Huidobro
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism").
Sight 2: Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
Sight 3: Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Her image is featured on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote.
Sight 4: Parque Cultural de Valparaíso
The Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (PCdV), also known as the Ex-prison, is an architectural complex built on Cerro Cárcel in Valparaíso, Chile, starting in 2010 and inaugurated during the government of Sebastián Piñera in October 2011. The establishment is located on the basis of what was the old public prison of the city, being occupied today by artists and local cultural and community groups. Within the park there is also an old powder magazine, an archaeological site from the end of the colonial era, which corresponds to the oldest preserved construction of the city, and the only testimony of the fortifications that were built on numerous hills of Valparaíso.
Sight 5: Saint Paul's
St. Paul's Cathedral is a historic Anglican church in Valparaíso, Chile. Located in Cerro Concepción in the historic British section of Valparaíso, St. Paul's has been a National Monument of Chile since 1979 and a cathedral since 2016.
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