Walking Tour of The Heart of Valparaíso
Hi everyone! I’m Juan Víctor (or Jay-Veek), a real porteño (Valparaíso local) and a passionate tour guide —since 2012— of this vibrant city. I really love meeting travelers and helping them to experience Valparaíso’s rich history, politics, and cultural context, in a rather conversational, more personal way instead of a lecture. I speak English and Portuguese too!
Pickup
I'll meet you at the top of the slide at Lukas Square (between Casa Vander Hotel and the upper station of the Reina Victoria Funicular), and I'll hold a sign with a colorful dog.
Description
I was planning in taking you through the original route I crafted for my first tours of B-side Valparaíso back in 2012 —but it’s a bit too long for a 3-hour walking tour.
So I thought for a while about how to mix the traditional, tourist Valparaíso and its B-side, and to make it fit into a max 3-hour walking tour and include all of what makes Valparaíso so unique: vibrant, ever-changing street art; diverse, colorful architecture; scenic viewpoints; and a rich history of ups and downs.
I pictured the route in my mind and it looked like ♡heart; it doesn’t on a real map, though :)
We’ll go around the block, walking in kind of a circle, that starts and ends at Lukas Square (next to the Reina Victoria Funicular’s upper station), walking through Alegre, Concepción, Cárcel, and Panteón Hills.
This is the route:
★Casa Vander & Lukas Square
★Dimalow Alley & LRM Mural
★St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral
★Templeman Street & ‘We Are Not Hippies, We Are Happies’ Mural
★San Enrique Street (cabblestones & mansions)
★Montealegre Street & ‘Native Chile’ Mural
★Alemania Avenue
★Bismarck Square (mosaics & lookout)
★The Former Prison (Valparaíso Cultural Park)
★Panteón Hill (first Valparaíso cemeteries)
★Cumming Street
★Reina Victoria Funicular
★Lukas Square
The Reina Victoria Funicular fee is $100 (Chilean pesos) and must be paid directly by each participant with cash.