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Posted On: June 18th 2025, 04:00 pm
Valparaiso, Chile 🇨🇱 June 2025
Wow is this city beautiful! A UNESCO World heritage site, once an incredibly wealthy port town took a turn once the Panama canal opened. There isn't much flat land here and what there is mostly industrial or already been built. As such most new building is into the hills, of which most of it is done illegally out of desperation.
This complex situation has led to a massive boom in artists expressing their discontent and opposition through street art. Making some form of message to the government over the treatment of the poor.
To get up and down are the very vertical 'ascensors', only about 10p to get up many metres to get people to their homes. There used to be over 70, now sadly only about 10 are operational as of which have been renovated in the last decade.
#solotravel #backpacking #chile #valparaiso #streetart #streetphotography #protest #art
Wow is this city beautiful! A UNESCO World heritage site, once an incredibly wealthy port town took a turn once the Panama canal opened. There isn't much flat land here and what there is mostly industrial or already been built. As such most new building is into the hills, of which most of it is done illegally out of desperation.
This complex situation has led to a massive boom in artists expressing their discontent and opposition through street art. Making some form of message to the government over the treatment of the poor.
To get up and down are the very vertical 'ascensors', only about 10p to get up many metres to get people to their homes. There used to be over 70, now sadly only about 10 are operational as of which have been renovated in the last decade.
#solotravel #backpacking #chile #valparaiso #streetart #streetphotography #protest #art
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