Valparaíso
A port city stacked up impossibly steep hills, its century-old funiculars and layered murals doing double duty as transit and public art.
Valparaíso is built up more than forty hills rising straight from the harbor, connected by funiculars — ascensores — running since the 1880s, some still on original equipment. Nearly every wall carries a mural, part planned public art and part decades of accumulated street painting, and wandering the cerros to find them is the main activity rather than a side effect of getting somewhere.
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La Colombina
Valparaíso, ChileA small art-filled bistro on Valparaíso's Paseo Yugoslavo, serving daily lunch plates and coffee among a clutter of vintage curios.
Viña del Mar
Valparaíso's flatter, calmer neighbor — a beach promenade and residential grid instead of hillside funiculars and murals.