Mirador Lukas Museum
The Mirador Lukas Museum is a cultural center created in homage to the Chilean journalist and illustrator Renzo Pecchenino, better known as Lukas, who thanks to his virtuous brush captured the idiosyncrasy of the inhabitants of Valparaíso. The museum is an elegant 19th century house where Lukas' life and work are exhibited. Renzo Pecchenino in…
National Maritime Museum
This museum, which belongs to the Chilean Navy, was originally created in 1915 and operated on board the Huáscar, a battleship that participated in the War of the Pacific defending Peru and that was captured by the Chilean squadron in 1879. Many years later, it was restored as it contained much historical material that was…
La Sebastiana
La Sebastiana is a house museum, which originally belonged to the great national poet Pablo Neruda. Before living there, the Nobel Prize for Literature had commissioned some friends to find something to escape from Santiago's fatigue: "I want to find in Valparaiso a little house to live and write in peace. It has to have…
Baburizza Palace
This is a must on our tour of Valparaiso. Palacio Baburizza was built in 1916 on the Cerro Alegre by Italian architects Arnaldo Barison and Renato Schiavon for the Zanelli family. It is named after its second owner, Croatian businessman Pascual Baburizza, who acquired the mansion in 1925. This large house became the headquarters of…
Villa Victoria
Villa Victoria is the first live exhibition of the glorious past of Valparaíso in the 19th century, which is what gave it the name of World Heritage Site for being "an exceptional testimony of the early phase of globalization, at the end of the 19th century, when Valparaíso became the leading port of the commercial…
Natural History Museum of Valparaiso
The Natural History Museum of Valparaíso was created by educator Eduardo de la Barra in 1878, in two rooms of the Liceo de Hombres de Valparaíso, which allowed the development of the second oldest museum in Chile and the first one in the region. Back in 1879, the MHNV had a scientific library that contained…
San Agustín Elevator
The San Agustín elevator was inaugurated in 1913 as a complement to the service provided by the Cordillera elevator in the very populated Cerro Cordillera. The particularity of this funicular is that it has a scarce urban presence, its facilities are not very visible, the station is one more house of the sector, where a…
Queen Victoria Elevator
The Queen Victoria elevator is the elevator with the least trajectory after the Carlos Van Buren Hospital elevator. Its capacity is also small: seven passengers per car. This funicular was built in 1902 and its name is a tribute to the British sovereign who died in 1901, because many English people lived in Cerro Concepción.
Polanco Elevator
The Polanco elevator was inaugurated in 1916 and is the only elevator in Valparaíso that moves vertically, while the rest are of the funicular type. Its lower entrance is the mouth of a 150-meter tunnel. Its only car (originally there were two) ascends vertically 60 meters towards the interior of the hill, and then it…
Hospital Van Buren Elevator
The Van Buren Hospital elevator was inaugurated in 1929, with the objective of transferring patients and officials within the hospital. This funicular replaced the San Juan de Dios elevator, which was destroyed in the Valparaiso earthquake of 1906. The novelty of this elevator is that its lower station is located in the central patio of…