Mirador del Cerro Esperanza: located on the last corner of the climb the hill, has a beautiful square on the creek Portals and Spa Pleasures hill. It is the first viewpoint is the city coming from Viña del Mar.
Mirador de la Puntilla San Luis: is on the hill between the down Pleasures Yolanda and the Rise San Luis, next to Santa University Mary. It has a beautiful view of hills and bay. Formerly known as the terrace Balmaceda, which was demolished to occupy land in the construction of modern apartment buildings. Until 1955, was instead forced to perform dances by the sea and celebrate the "Spring Festival", with Challe and streamers. The older locals remember with nostalgia and emotion these candid and beautiful festivals that will not return. Mirador
Diego Portales: is in Baron Hill, on the grounds of Baron Persian market. It has a beautiful panoramic view of Valparaiso and its hills.
Mirador Marina Mercante: is located in a sector of Cerro Playa Ancha in the upper part corresponding to the population Marina Mercante offers a panoramic view of Valparaiso bay with the movement of ships and boats.
Mirador O'Higgins: located at the top of the hill San Roque, this encompasses the entire Bay lookout. Its name comes from the historic phrase uttered here by Bernardo O'Higgins, when facing the bay saw the ships of the then National Fleet: "Of these four tables hang the destinies of America." There is a memorial to this ruling of the liberator.
Paseo Atkinson: located in the Cerro Concepción, on the Plaza Anibal Pinto. You can access it down the street and the scale Papudo Conception, which rises behind the building of the newspaper El Mercurio, where once stood the legendary Cave of the gauge.
Paseo Gervasoni: is located on Cerro Concepcion and can be reached by elevator Turri. It provides an overview of the port and has a spectacular view. It's a beautiful walk through its proximity to the Lutheran Church and the Anglican Church of Saint Paul.
Paseo Yugoslav : is located in Cerro Alegre and are accessed by elevator Pear. There is the Baburizza palace, which houses the Museum of Fine Arts. It was built in 1916 and declared a National Monument in 1979. This privileged viewpoint offers a superb view of the bay and its surroundings.
Walk May 21: is one of the most beautiful and visited Valparaiso, located opposite the former Naval Academy. Currently working there Naval Museum, the beautiful view spans the harbor, breakwater, pier Baron, Viña de Mar, Reñaca and Concón. Your pergola is suspended over Altamirano Avenue and is the route terminal elevator Artillery. Its double row of mature trees provides shade that deny the other rides. Here also done the "spring festival" be skated and played the Challa. Were common retreats offered by the Navy Band and the Maipo Regiment.
The breakwater: is an extension of cement and rocks next to the battery starts Esmeralda, Avenida Altamirano. This large concrete arm moves a mile out to sea, the 300 m form a right elbow, which flows almost parallel to the bay, reaching in this corner of a lighthouse, which is called Punta Duprat. The lighthouse began operating in May 1921, the same year that opened the breakwater.
past, the loading and unloading maneuvers were very risky and dangerous
also be an uncomfortable experience for passengers and marine traffic in the bay, due to the roughness of the sea and wind. This masterpiece of engineering became the port of Valparaiso in a bay suitable for shipping, also enabled our Navy to have a safe and covered dock high wind and waves. It also provided a beautiful city and spectacular walkway.
Valparaiso Dique III: is located in front of the warm pool and you can see up close in the traditional boat rides are offered at Pier Prat. Built in 1985 and has a lifting capacity of 10,000 tons. Has careened and repaired a significant number of ships in the domestic and international shipping community.
New Year at Sea
many years, our port of nostalgia has added to its unquestionable beauty and color, a party that has reached beyond our borders. Every December 31 the city celebrates New Year pouring tons of fireworks from docks and boats, which are visible from every corner of the bay and Viña del Mar. There are thousands of people in this magical night filled with verandas and balconies of coastline to enjoy a unparalleled fireworks, which fills us with pride and emotion.
The Valparaiso Metrotren
urban rail is across much of the plan to finish in Valparaiso city Limache. The tour begins at surface level at Station Port, front the Plaza Sotomayor and is bordering the coastline, which allows to recreate the view with the hills, the sea, the bay and the city in general. Already in Viña del Mar, Caleta Abarca station, near the flower clock, the internal road is under the surface and reappearing in cross-town Falls Station, and so continues until Limache. The Metrotren was inaugurated on 23 November 2005, its fleet consists of 27 trains of two cars each. Made in France have a capacity of 392 passengers and have 144 comfortable seats. The trip is quick and quiet as well have an air conditioning system that makes this journey a very pleasant walk
south of Valparaiso Access
The new coastal road south of Valparaiso has a length of 23 km approximately. Is part of the southern access starting in Placilla, on route 68, passing along the way the Gunpowder, the Buenos Aires side of the jail and down the hill side of Playa Ancha to enter the tunnels to reach the port areas Valparaiso in the field of customs. Besides being an expeditious way to the port, allows the recovery of the coastline as a public promenade, with beautiful viewpoints on the cliffs and connects Valparaiso to the rest of the central cities resulting in the passage of large trucks with heavy loads that can decongest the city center with its cargo leaving the access road south to the powder and Route 68.
This road was begun in the 90's, includes three tunnels or subways. When going from Placilla Powder following the path you come first to the tunnel Las Animas, of 473 meters long, a short distance after you enter the Loma Larga tunnel, 330 meters long, and after a long slope enters 2.l50 supertúnel of meters below the hill across Playa Ancha and that its output is split into two branches, a viaduct that passes over the street and enters Antonio Varas to the exhibition port of Valparaiso, the other leg is connected to the street Antonio Varas almost reaching the square of the Customs.
Epilogue
The background, dates, knowledge of the walks, monuments and viewpoints have been taken mostly from the extra "Holiday V Region," published in the newspaper El Mercurio, in December 1991. Besides the "Cerros de Valparaíso" published by the Journal Star, with notes and comments of those who wrote and produced all feeling this publication as a tribute to our beautiful Valparaiso.
As an acknowledged homage to its natural beauty the historical value of its monuments, to the intricacy of its geography, the quality of its history, its ancient streets and the maze of alleys and passages, Valparaiso from the year 2003, still a few of us to become heritage of all. In Paris, France, July 2, 2003, our city was declared a World Heritage Site, especially the area between the Plaza Aníbal Pinto and Customs plaza, which corresponds to the town of Valparaiso.
In an attempt to make known such beauty of our Valparaiso, the origin of the names of hills, streams and creeks, often ignored by the inhabitants of our city, has motivated me with enthusiasm, to make this research of the most beautiful and traditional of the local geography.
you read these pages full of pleasant memories, I hope to take them to places they once roamed in his youth. Its corners, streets, hills and gullies filled with nostalgia back to your hearts, and if I get this happy reunion with the past that we so long, my effort will not have been in vain.
Acknowledgements I thank my editors, my son Nelson and Macarena Otero, the infinite patience and great willingness to have had in the development of this exhaustive research.
also want to thank and dedicate this work with great feeling and emotion, the Circle of Ex-Naval Nurses for the incentive and support in the genesis of this work dedicated to our beloved port.
Go to all my deepest appreciation.
A spring, narrow streets,
a red light at a lintel, sailors,
nostalgia, a love in every port
and aromas that are difficult to define.
The cap backward, the wind, which ignites the tie,
climb the cobblestone street cobblestone
to the stars and night I'm one of them, stepping on the maze
of the streets with dim lights
offer you at every door the love of my city. Valparaíso port
cute, in my youth I lived a thousand stories
that I can never erase from my memory.
nurses
For sailors who lived and felt this magical emotion
I'm sure a smile light up their faces
and from the bottom of my heart appreciate this reminder so beautiful and emotive
feel when we remember what we did on those nights
illusion, when was not yet twenty.
Alejandro Martínez Rojas Nurse Chief Petty Officer
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