Half-Day Valparaiso City Highlights Tour
Valparaíso, Chile
Trip Type: City Tours
Duration: 4 hours
Explore Valparaiso on this 4-hour sightseeing tour and discover the best highlights the city has to offer. This vibrant city has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002, for its picturesque and unique architecture. You will see countless multi-colored houses spread over 40 hills in a chaotic harmony. During this tour we will visit the most famous landmarks of the city, including Plaza Sotomayor, Cerro Concepción, Cerro Alegre among others. The tour is taken in a comfortable a/c van and includes a ride by one of the 16 funiculars that are still in use.
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Explore Valparaiso on this 4-hour sightseeing tour and discover the best highlights the city has to offer. This vibrant city has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002, for its picturesque and unique architecture. You will see countless multi-colored houses spread over 40 hills in a chaotic harmony. During this tour we will visit the most famous landmarks of the city, including Plaza Sotomayor, Cerro Concepción, Cerro Alegre among others. The tour is taken in a comfortable a/c van and includes a ride by one of the 16 funiculars that are still in use.Valparaiso, the 'Jewel of the Pacific', as the city is known, is considered among the most interesting cities in South America, thanks to its picturesque multi-colored houses and narrow streets, which have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The tour starts with a pick up from your hotel in the morning. The first stop is Cerro Florida, to admire La Sebastiana, House-Museum of Pablo Neruda (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 - admission not included). Continue along a scenic road through the hills, from where you can get nice views of the city and the ocean. Then climb up to Cerro Concepción and walk through the famous Paseo Atkinson and Gervasoni, while your guide tells you about the history of foreign immigrants who came to Valparaiso during its golden age (before the opening of the Panama Canal, where it still was the main port in South America).
Then, descend to Muelle Prat and see Plaza Sotomayor, one of Valparaiso´s main squares. These squares host some of the most traditional landmarks of the city, including the Old Aduana (nowadays part of the naval zone of the Chilean army), the monument to Arturo Prat, considered a national hero for the Pacific War and other French style buildings dating back to the seventeenth century.
End your tour with a funicular ride to Paseo 21 de Mayo, to get the a stunning views of the port. Your last stop is Cerro Playa Ancha to visit the Merchant Marine viewpoint, with its fabulous amphitheater facing the Pacific.
After this, you will be dropped off back at your hotel in Valparaiso or Viña del Mar.
The tour starts with a pick up from your hotel in the morning. The first stop is Cerro Florida, to admire La Sebastiana, House-Museum of Pablo Neruda (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 - admission not included). Continue along a scenic road through the hills, from where you can get nice views of the city and the ocean. Then climb up to Cerro Concepción and walk through the famous Paseo Atkinson and Gervasoni, while your guide tells you about the history of foreign immigrants who came to Valparaiso during its golden age (before the opening of the Panama Canal, where it still was the main port in South America).
Then, descend to Muelle Prat and see Plaza Sotomayor, one of Valparaiso´s main squares. These squares host some of the most traditional landmarks of the city, including the Old Aduana (nowadays part of the naval zone of the Chilean army), the monument to Arturo Prat, considered a national hero for the Pacific War and other French style buildings dating back to the seventeenth century.
End your tour with a funicular ride to Paseo 21 de Mayo, to get the a stunning views of the port. Your last stop is Cerro Playa Ancha to visit the Merchant Marine viewpoint, with its fabulous amphitheater facing the Pacific.
After this, you will be dropped off back at your hotel in Valparaiso or Viña del Mar.
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