22 Sights in Valparaíso, Chile (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Valparaíso, Chile! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Valparaíso. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in ValparaísoActivities in Valparaíso1. Plaza Sotomayor
The Plaza Sotomayor is a plaza in Valparaíso, Chile. It is named after Rafael Sotomayor. The square is lined by buildings occupying full block-fronts of the streets that flank it. The focus of the square is the monument that honors the Chilean sailors who fell during the Battle of Iquique and the Battle of Punta Gruesa. The plaza and surrounding buildings was designated a Zona Típica on January 23, 1979.
2. Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
3. Isabel La Católica
Isabella I, also called Isabella the Catholic, was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II. Reigning together over a dynastically unified Spain, Isabella and Ferdinand are known as the Catholic Monarchs.
4. Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Her image is featured on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote.
5. Obelisco a Diego Portales
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential Chilean poets of the Spanish language in the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda. Parra described himself as an "anti-poet", due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he would exclaim: "Me retracto de todo lo dicho".
6. Juan Bautista Alberdi
Juan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Chile, he influenced the content of the Constitution of Argentina of 1853.
7. Vicente Huidobro
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism").
8. Plaza de la Victoria
Plaza Victoria, also called Plaza de la Victoria, is a square located in the El Almendral sector of the city plan of Valparaíso, Chile, of heritage importance, which includes valuable statues and plant species.
9. Plaza O'Higgins
O'Higgins Square is a square located in the El Almendral neighborhood, in the city plan of Valparaíso, Chile, specifically next to the National Congress building. Its good accessibility and spaciousness make it a busy place at almost any time of the day, being enjoyed especially by older adults who sit down to play breeze and chess.
10. Iglesia San Francisco
San Francisco Church is a Catholic church located in Barón Hill, Valparaíso, Chile. The church served as lighthouse to the navigants who were arriving Valparaíso until the early 20th century, being the first recognizable point of the city. Valparaíso is often nicknamed with the diminutive form of Francisco: Pancho.
11. Parque Cultural de Valparaíso
The Valparaíso Cultural Park (PCdV), also known as the Ex-cárcel, is an architectural complex built on Cerro Cárcel in Valparaíso, Chile, starting in 2010 and inaugurated during the government of Sebastián Piñera in October 2011. The establishment is located on the basis of what was the old public prison of the city, being occupied today by artists and local cultural and community groups. Within the park land there is also an old powder magazine, an archaeological site from the end of the colonial era, which corresponds to the oldest construction that is preserved in the city, and the only testimony of the fortifications that were built on numerous hills of Valparaíso.
12. Ascensor Polanco
The Polanco Lift is a passenger elevator located in Valparaíso, Chile. It consists of three stations and connects Simpson Street with Polanco Hill. This lift is the only "true" elevator in the city, as all others are technically funiculars. Today it is more visited by tourists than by the local residents.
13. Palacio Baburizza
Palacio Baburizza is the former residence of Croatian businessman Pascual Baburizza located in Valparaíso, Chile. It was built in 1916 by Italian architects, and eventually turned into a museum in 1971, and declared a historic monument in 1976.
14. Arco Británico
The Arco Británico is a monument on Avenida Brasil, in Valparaíso, Chile. It was donated to the town in 1910 by the British community there to mark the centenary of the Independence of Chile. Designed by the Chilean architect Alfredo Azancot, the arch was unveiled in 1911.
15. Faro Recinto Portuario Primera Zona Naval
The Punta Duprat Lighthouse is a lighthouse belonging to the lighthouse network of Chile. It is named in memory of Juan Duprat, who in 1845 installed a shipyard on the edge where the access to the molo that leads to the lighthouse is located. It is located in the Molo de Abrigo de Valparaíso.
16. Teatro Condell
The Teatro Condell or Sala Condell is a theater and movie theater located in the Plaza Victoria in the Chilean city of Valparaíso. It was inaugurated in 1912 next to the gallery that bears its name, and has a capacity of 350 spectators.
17. Saint Paul's
St. Paul's Cathedral is a historic Anglican church in Valparaíso, Chile. Located in Cerro Concepción in the historic British section of Valparaíso, St. Paul's has been a National Monument of Chile since 1979 and a cathedral since 2016.
18. Iglesia de los Sagrados Corazones
The Sacred Hearts Church is a Catholic church located at 2086 Independencia Street, in El Almendral neighborhood, in Valparaíso, Chile. Staffed by the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, it was built to serve as the church for the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Valparaíso community. The church was declared as a National Monument of Chile in 2003, within the category of Historic Monuments.
19. Monumento a los Héroes de Iquique
Monumento a los Héroes de Iquique is a monument in Chile. It is located in the province of Valparaíso and the region of the Región de Valparaíso, in the south of the country, 100 km northwest of the capital Santiago de Chile. The Monumento a los Héroes de Iquique is 20 metres above sea level.
20. Capilla del Carmen
The Capilla del Carmen, also known as Capilla de la Medalla Milagrosa, is a chapel located on the lower flank of El Litre Hill, in El Almendral neighborhood of Valparaíso, Chile. Built in 1928, it was run by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, who provided care to patients of the adjacent Hospital Carlos Van Buren until March 2017. The chapel was declared as a National Monument of Chile on May 20, 2003, within the category of Historic Monuments.
21. Palacio Astoreca
The Astoreca Palace is a building located on Cerro Alegre, in the city of Valparaíso, Chile. It was built in 1923 in Victorian style as a residence for Francisco Petrinovic. After being home to several families, it was home to the School of Arts of the University of Playa Ancha and a candidate to host the National Council of Culture and the Arts.
22. Reloj Turri
The Turri Clock, also known as the Edwards Building, is a building located in the financial district of Valparaíso, at the intersection of Prat and Cochrane streets. It is one of the most traditional buildings in the city, and a point of reference for porteños.
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