Posts Tagged ‘heritage’
Grandmother’s kitchen
There is a worldwide tendency to (re)appreciate one’s gastronomical heritage. Grandmother’s kitchen is being rediscovered, sometimes refined or fused. Valparaiso already has plenty traditional restaurants, where you sometimes find a real grandmother behind the stove. We recently spotted the new ‘Antaño, como cocinaba tu Abuela’ on Almirante Mont and were eager to try it out. Read more »
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Yesterday we laid our hands on a printed copy of the ‘Ciudad de Valparaiso’ Heritage Routes, edited by the Government of Chile. The amount of detail, the pictures and the selection of Valparaiso’s cultutral heritage are impressive. This booklet is a must have for city explorers and is a free download. Visit the website of the Ministerio de Bienes Nacionales and click ‘bajar PDF’ on number 24. Unzip, print it, come to Valparaiso and walk, walk, walk.
Calle Serrano welcomes the trolleybus
15 Months after the horrible explosion in Calle Serrano the street in the historic center of Valparaiso has been reopened. This street is the main axe in Valparaiso’s Unesco World Heritage Zone and connects Plaza Sotomayor with the remains of the very first settlement in the port town: the church ‘La Matriz’. Since recently the electric powered trolleybus drives through Serrano. Trolleybuses are part of the city’s heritage and are a perfect way to cruise the historic center and down town.
