Valparaíso Things to Do

It was declared a National Monument on July 18, 1983. Located in the Cerro Barón.
In 1845, laid the foundation stone of the Franciscan complex. In 1851 the church was then in 1890 built the existing body of facade by the architect Eduardo Provasoli.
A violent fire in 1983 partially destroyed, then rebuilt retaining all its features, including brick tower, silhouette feature for approaching the port of Valparaiso

A place that been there for so many years. Located in downtown of Valparaiso, a cross the one of main square Parque Italia. I've never been to that place but take the picture because my friend is from Turkey :0))

ABaños Turcos El Parque (32) 225-5186
Freire 564
Valparaíso, V
Fax: (32) 225-5186

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The Baron Hill is one of the 42 hills of Valparaíso. Located at the eastern end of the plan of the city, next to the Dairy Hill, and is a purely residential area. His name is because in 1795 the place was built a fort to protect the El Almendral and the northern sector of the bay of pirates attack and to call it. The city council decided to pay tribute to the Governor Ambrosio O'Higgins, who held the title of Baron of Ballenary naming the fort finally as Fort Ballenary Baron, finally giving the name to the hill. Its development began with the development of the sector of El Almendral and construction in 1852 of petty and Baron Station, the first station of the railroad from Valparaiso to Santiago

The Armada de Chile building is the headquarters of the Chilean Navy. The grand building is also a National Monument. It was built in 1906. The architect was Ernesto Urquieta, who based its design on a government building he'd seen in Paris. At one time, one wing of the building was used as the summer residence of the President of Chile.

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Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso is an interesting museum in the very centre of Valparaiso and it is well known for its collection of shrunken heads , you will see some of them on their web-page below !
I was mainly attracted by the lovely facade of the building and unfortunately I diod not have enough time to go inside, but I will certainly do that the next time !

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Pablo Neruda was a chilenean novelist who won the Nobel prize for Literature and his former house is a museum nowadays and one of the most important tourist-sights of Valparaiso.
It is a pity that I did not have enough time to go there, at least I could see the house from below, while walking on Av. Brasil to the city.
The Neruda-museum La Sebastiana is open :
Tuesdays to Sundays, 10.10 AM to 6 PM.
General admission: CP$2.500 each visitor (=5 Euros)
Collage, university students and seniors: CP$1.000 each visitor (Tuesdays to Fridays, except holidays).

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The former Palacio Baburizza is nowadays used as the museum of fine arts.
This great Art-Nouveau-building was built in 1916 for the family Zanelli by the architects Renato Schiavon and Arnaldo Barinson and some years later it was bought by don Pascual Baburizza.
The museum of fine Art is open :
Tuesday-Sundays: 10:00am till 06.00pm

One good example of the government's will to make Valparaiso The Arty place in Chile is the project "Ex-Carcel". Since year 2000, the old jail has been transformed in a art center and the 1350 prisoners have been replaced by paintings, sculptures, theatre, concerts...

Around 50 artists are currently involved in the project. Ask for Papito, an ex-10-year-prisoner who is now in charge of guiding visitors and who is also busy writing a book on jail jargon. The Ex-Carcel is open to public on saturdays and sundays only!

This picture has been taken from the outside wall of the Ex-Carcel and represents a view from the inside.
If you like wall paintings, you'll be happy to find many in Valparaiso, especially in Cerros Alegre and Concepción, and also in an area called "museo a cielo abierto" (on the east side of Subida Ecuador - cerro Florida)