Barrio Puerto

What the Barrio Puerto is

The Barrio Puerto is the historic core of the plan of Valparaíso, articulated around the square, the Estación Puerto and the maritime front. It preserves streets, buildings and shops linked to port life.

It belongs to the historic area listed as World Heritage and concentrates a good part of the city's walks.

The neighbourhood keeps a mix of port activity, commerce and housing that gives it life beyond tourism. Walking it lets you see a Valparaíso that is less monumental and more everyday. That mix of uses makes the neighbourhood change through the day, with more activity during working hours. Walking it at different moments offers different impressions of the same area.

How to walk it

From the square you can keep walking towards Muelle Prat, go up towards the hills or go deeper into the streets of the neighbourhood. The interest lies in the whole and in the daily life of the area.

As throughout the plan, there are irregular pavements and traffic; it is worth walking attentively and checking the accesses during the works.

Since the neighbourhood is covered on foot, it is worth setting a starting point and a return point and not depending on a single establishment or service. The square works well as a reference to avoid getting lost on the plan. Before heading into the neighbourhood, it is worth identifying the reference points — the square, the station, the pier — to keep your bearings. With those landmarks to hand, moving around the plan becomes straightforward.

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