Full Day City Tour Valparaiso

Tour start time: 10:00am

• The tour begins in Plaza Sotomayor, the main starting point, where the historical significance of the monument will be explained. There will be a brief visit to the port to explain the native peoples and the origin of the city. The history of the Hotel Reina Victoria, the Fire Department, the Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores and the Chilean Navy building will be explained. The history of the Hotel Reina Victoria, the Fire Department, the Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores and the Chilean Navy building will be explained. We will move towards the Customs Square and passing through the old Market we will arrive at the Artillery Elevator, to enjoy a wonderful view of the city in the Paseo Mirador 21 de Mayo.
• From this place we will go to the Plaza de la Justicia to take the elevator (Reina Victoria or El Peral). As we climb, the traveler will get a panoramic view of the hills using these ancient means of transportation. We will arrive at Cerro Alegre where we will walk along the Paseo Yugoslavo, the Baburizza Palace, the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, the Hotel Palacio Astoreca and we will enjoy the typical style of the residences of the old English colony in Valparaíso such as the Casa Crucero. In Cerro Concepción we will visit places frozen in time located between the narrow streets and their houses of English, French and German heritage. You will enjoy numerous graffiti murals and cultural interventions of public and private spaces.
• Then we will arrive at Paseo Gervasoni, next to the Concepción Elevator and we will enjoy the UNESCO heritage zone, Paseo Atkinson, Anglican Church, the former German School, the German Lutheran Church and we will arrive at the Templeman staircase and finally we will arrive at Paseo Dimalow del Cerro Alegre where you will enjoy the iconic view of Valparaíso.
• We will then go to Cerro Cárcel, passing first by the First Craft Brewery of Chile, to enjoy the special attractions that await us in the old Valparaíso prison, the legends associated with the Cerro Panteón Cemetery, the origins of Plaza Bismarck with the viewpoints Surroundings, Avenida Alemania, the Puppet and Clown Museum and Cerro Bellavista where we will show you, Pablo Neruda's house, the Plaza de los Poetas, the Open Sky Museum and the Holy Spirit Elevator.
• We will return to the lower part of the city arriving at Plaza Victoria, the old main civic square of the city and we will arrive at the first Public Library of Chile and the British Arch. We will finish in the area of Avenida Brasil and we will explain some interesting stories of the link between Hamburg (Germany) and Valparaíso that continues to this day.
• We will continue to Plaza Aníbal Pinto and Restaurant Cinzano, one of the places where the Buenos Aires bohemia was always active and where Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize winners for Literature, enjoyed their active nightlife in Valparaíso. Then, back to the departure area we will enjoy the heritage of the "Belle Epoque", from the Hotel Colón, the old Hotel Royal, the Banco Anglo-Sudamericano, El Edificio Turri and other architectural gems that show that Valparaíso, in its most glamorous era, was a small New York with panoramic views that made sailors call it: "The second California".
• The entire tour is complemented with audiovisual material, old photographs, anecdotes and curious facts that allow you to travel back in time and "understand" the city and its history.