One hundred and fifty years ago, Pacific town of Valparaiso, in those days the main port in South America, witnessed mass "here come in large numbers" of immigrants from all over Europe. Settlers brought with them pieces of Paris, Rome or London, everyone was asleep in his neighborhood were playing for their football club, and after ate their booze in their pubs, on Sundays to pray in their churches and died in their cemeteries.
Since they were very poor, then their homes painted paint residues
It was founded by the oldest Hispanic newspaper in the world, the first stock exchange in the continent, was born a democratically elected president Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet of his executioner.
City sandwiched a narrow strip between the ocean and mountains, multi-colored brightly painted houses with natural painted graffiti on the walls descends steps from all the surrounding hills.
Unless you approach closely and did not touch his hand, not even a clear picture or reality. The most famous artistic masterpiece, which became the motto of all spiritual valparaistsev - installation Apaga tele, Vive tu vida («Turn off the TV, start living the life").
Monument surrounded by bars and barbed wire, so that no one has deprived honorable citizens of this unique statue of liberty.
Hills in the city is so steep that residents raised them in special infernal machine - cable car, built 100 years ago and is still operating. Price per trip length 55 meter fixed municipality in the 6 rubles.
El Peral funicular, built in 1902, the daily transports 500. While a cabin rises, another falls.
Other prehistoric dinosaurs of the transport department of Valparaiso, trolley, put in metal in France and transported to Chile for the afterlife.
In the second half of XX century the city was
and Valparaiso left to plunder lustful drunken sailors with moored ocean-going vessels, free-thinking students and tourists who stopped by from Santiago on a day trip. They say the New Year is the grandest fireworks display in all of Latin America.
I planned to spend the afternoon and stayed for five wandering through the narrow and steep streets, along obosannyh walls of houses, inhaling the atmosphere of immense immigrant freedom, stepping carefully between the piles of dog shit and enthusiastically looking around, if not for Sydney, which blew my head off once and for all,
I would call the most romantic Valparaiso cities on the planet.
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