Valpo: Chile’s dilapidated beauty

There's no rhyme nor reason to this poetic, coastal town.

Words: Lee Tulloch, Photography: Tony Amos
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a bargain?
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power couple
dodgy laneway
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el plano, trolley bus
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mercado central
mercado central out and in
Casa Higueras
Hotel 17
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bbq, view from Casa Higueras
Pasta e Vino
Vinilo - Mrs & Gonzalo
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‘If we walk up and down all of Valparaiso’s stairs, we will have made a trip around the earth.’ So wrote Pablo Neruda, Chile’s great  poet, of the romantic, raffish city that hangs above Chile’s Pacific coast, winding around forty-five steep hills and defying gravity, geography and history.

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