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Valparaíso is not a city arranged for easy admiration. It climbs, turns, rusts, burns and begins again, always keeping the Pacific somewhere in view. Behind the famous coloured hills stands a working Chilean port shaped by Indigenous coastal knowledge, global trade, migration, earthquakes, fire, poetry and the daily intelligence required to live on a steep slope.
A Little Book of Valparaíso enters the city through forty concise, researched reflections. Follow the bay and the made ground of el plan; climb Cerro Alegre, Cerro Concepción and Bellavista; ride the ascensores and trolleybuses; pass through Plaza Sotomayor, La Matriz, Mercado Cardonal and Caleta Portales; and listen for cueca, port bars, street art and the voices held inside the former prison. The book also confronts the bombardment of 1866, the earthquake of 1906, the opening of the Panama Canal, the great fire of 2014, the pressures of tourism and the difficult promise of World Heritage status.
Written for travellers, readers and lovers of layered cities, this is not a conventional guidebook but an intimate literary portrait of a port built by distance, memory and improvisation.
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