Valaparaiso Photo 3

Valaparaiso

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February 14th 2008
Valparaiso is an amazing and unique city. Its built on lots of very steep hills (cerros) so has lots of little funicular lifts which are very old, but well maintained (at least the ones we went on). The next thing is that the cladding material of choice is corrugated iron sheet! So houses often look like an old shack with very grand doors and windows. The next weird thing the colours used to pa ... read more

South America » Chile » Valparaíso Region » Valparaíso

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more