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From Lisbon’s iconic Gloria Funicular to the Duquesne Incline in Pittsburgh, Adele Berti profiles the story of some of the oldest and most unique funicular railways.
Source: In pictures: the world’s most beautiful funicular railways
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Experience the colorful street art, unique architecture and exquisite seafood of Valparaíso, a coastal Chilean city located just northwest of Santiago.
Source: Discovering Valparaíso | Chile’s Painted Coastline | Hideaway Report
At these five spots, contemporary street art and cultural heritage go hand-in-hand.
Source: 5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites With Incredible Street Art
“Around the World in Analogue” is your bite-size guide to the most amazing travel destinations across the globe, as documented by the members of the Lomography community. Today, lomographer Kayla Falk takes us on an incredible journey to the art capital of Chile.
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Location: Valparaíso, Chile
“Valparaíso, what an absurdity you are, how crazy: a crazy port. What a head of disheveled hills, that you never finished combing. Never did you have time to dress yourself, and always you were surprised by life.” – Pablo Neruda
The ‘Jewel of the Pacific’, the bustling hillside port of Valparaíso is a museum of world-class street art and has served as home to artists among the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Valparaíso, Chile is unlike anywhere else in the world. This seaside port city found it way through a turbulent history to become the art capital of Chile today.
Read more from source: Lomography – Around the World in Analogue: Valparaíso, Chile
Space Goth Mermaid is the theme of the day… because I’m in colorful Valparaíso, Chile!
“Valpo” is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and boasts some of the best street art in the world. This hip, rainbow-covered city is only a 1.5 hour drive from Santiago — making it a perfect day trip during my LATAM Airlines adventure in South America..
If you’re an art and culture seeker, you will adore Valparaiso’s vibe. Artists from around the world flock to this Chilean port city, to add their works to this open canvas.
Walking around, you’ll come across wall-sized murals, graffiti, found art, 3D installations… sky’s the limit, when it comes to creativity in Valpo.
Santiago is a popular hub for LATAM’s many domestic and international flights. If you’re in the capital of Chile, I urge you to take a day to explore the nearby Valparaiso. It’s an inspiring place to walk around, find unexpected art (some of it with political themes), and take a million photos.
Read more from source: Space Goth fashion & Street Art in Valparaiso, Chile! Cool colorful murals, graffiti walking tour. | La Carmina Blog – Alternative Fashion, Travel, Subcultures
“Valparaiso, how absurd you are…you haven’t combed your hair, you’ve never had time to get dressed, life has always surprised you”. – Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
One of the most famous Chilean poets of all time, Pablo Neruda spent a big part of his life living in the winding hills of Valparaiso at his house called La Sebastiana. Perched up high above city, La Sebastiana afforded Neruda sweeping views of the sea and bustling world below which inspired Neruda with much of his great work. Located in the neighborhood of Cerro Bellavista, an area favored by artists and writers, La Sebastiana (which is now a museum) is just one reason why Cerro Bellavista is worth a visit.
Cerro Bellavista is also home to a large, fascinating collection of street art including the Museo a Cielo Abierto, a labyrinth collection of outdoor murals painted in the 1990s by various Latin American artists with the goal of reinventing the neighborhood.
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Enjoy sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean right in the heart of the UNESCO world heritage city of Valparaiso in Chile, South America. The house, which has more than 100 years of history, is on the third floor of a restored house and includes a bedroom, bathroom, balcony and veranda. At just €51 per night, this suite is an absolute steal.
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Referred to as the “valley of paradise,” Valparaiso represents just that. This Chilean port city is a popular stop for cruises, especially those traveling the coast of the Pacific and into the Panama Canal. It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003 and since then, it’s become even trendier and more bohemian than before. Street art dominates the city, which is present in almost every street corner, including the famed funiculars. As your cruise ship docks for your day trip to Valparaiso, check out these must do activities.
Day Trip to Valparaiso: What to Do Once the Ship Docks
Check out the Street Art
During your day trip to Valparaiso, or Valpo to locals, make sure to scout some of the best graffiti art anywhere in the world. This port town is well-known for striking murals.
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The Chilean city is one of the most striking urban spaces on the planet.
As in many hilly towns, I was told while walking around Valparaíso that the women of Valparaíso were famous for their great gams.
“It’s all the climbing,” the woman who was showing me around town said, with a broad smile and eyes sparkling just enough to let me know she was half kidding, but only half.
From what I could tell, the men’s weren’t bad, either.
I was in town for Halloween, so my sparkle-eyed host, a transplanted American who’d married a Chilean man, took me to a house party.
There were people sprinkled about the place, but what kitchens are to Canadian house parties, terraces are to the people of Valparaíso.
Cosmopolitan cities, deserts, ski resorts and World Heritage sites are all to be found in this land of stunning beauty and cultural quirks.
I’ve been warned to take care in Santiago. There are muggings, locals say. But from where I sit by the window of my restaurant in inner-city Lastarria, no one sashaying by looks shifty. I want their swagger, their dress flair, to parade before shop windows adoring my reflection. After dessert, I shift to the roof-top bar of my hotel, The Singular Santiago, where the city’s bold and beautiful drink under a rising gibbous moon that accentuates their cheekbones and the white tips of the Andes behind them.
Once dismissed as a city of industry, the Santiago of 2017 is an entirely different beast – “surprising, cosmopolitan, energetic, sophisticated and worldly”, as Lonely Planet puts it.
Valparaíso is a vibrant port city with a rich history and interesting areas to explore.
The city is a kaleidoscope of color; brightly painted houses clinging to the hillsides like the sides of a trowel with the city’s busy port at its tip. Valparaíso is Chile’s second largest metropolitan area after Santiago and one of the South Pacific’s most important seaports.
Upscape tour guide Manuel Garcia wants me to have this view before we start to explore neighborhoods and the historic quarter designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. As I take in the breathtaking view, Manuel explains that during the second half of the 19th century, the city served as a major stopover for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by crossing the Straits of Magellan.
You don’t have to be a world traveler to lose yourself in the fantastic places that dot our planet. Here are 6 of the most unbelievable wonders around the globe.
In 1887, Maori Chief Tane Tinorau and English surveyor Fred Mace made an astonishing discovery in New Zealand: a complex of caves illuminated by an otherworldly blue-green glow. For generations, the Maori had whispered about the caverns, but presumably no one had ventured deep inside until this pair went exploring by raft and candlelight. What they found was remarkable. The limestone ceilings of the cave system were strung with thousands of glowing creatures, the larvae of a carnivorous fungus gnat called Arachnocampa luminosa. These “glowworms” use blue bioluminescence to attract prey, which they then ensnare by dangling a gooey string of mucus.
Street art, maritime history, Pablo Neruda — this seaside port city is definitely worth a pit stop on your Chilean honeymoon.
Located about 70 miles (112 km) from Santiago, the seaside port city of Valparaíso was once known as “The Jewel of the Pacific.” During its heyday in the late 1800s and early 1900s, before the Panama Canal was completed, the city thrived. Though it later suffered decline as the port became less important to trade, it’s been revitalized in recent years. In 2003 the city’s historic quarter was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site and today it’s a chaotic jumble of narrow cobblestone streets and colorful houses that crawl up and over the city’s 40-plus hills. Yet despite its bohemian appeal, the city is less well-known than nearby Santiago.
A wildfire has ravaged woods and burned 100 homes in the hilly Chilean port city of Valparaiso, where authorities evacuated hundreds of people on Monday.
At least 19 people were reported hurt after the fire broke out on the outskirts of the historic port city, the government said.
Television pictures showed thick grey smoke filling the streets in the Laguna Verde district, where the blaze struck, and flames devouring green hillsides.
Hundreds of firefighters along with water-dumping airplanes and helicopters were battling the blaze, officials said.
“Emergency protocol have been activated,” the country’s President Michelle Bachelet said on Twitter. She expressed “solidarity with the people affected.”
The flames had “damaged 100 homes in an area where there are 500,” deputy interior minister Mahmud Aleuy told a news conference late Monday.
