Valparaiso: A city of Colors Floating at Sea

Valparaiso is a coastal city along the Pacific Ocean, functioning as the legislative capital (where the congress is located), the capital of Valparaiso, and also the capital of Greater Valparan, func is the sixth largest city in Chile. The old city of it was listed among the World Heritage Sites in 2003.

The city of Valparaiso is built against the mountain near the sea, and is famous for its colors. This is the place which Mr. Pablo Neruda loved the most because of its rich Bohemian style. Valparaiso consists of 40 or so hills surrounding a gulf of the Southern Pacific Ocean, which resembles a huge outdoor theater. Taking a panoramic view of the area with your camera, and zoom in on the picture and locate any detail of the picture, you will get a wonderful painting: colorful houses, vivid wall paintings, or a flower on the windowsill of the road, the porch pieced together with broken mirrors on the walls of the house. It seems the houses are messily huddled together; they look exquisite, classical, and vibrant on the whole.

A number of people compare Valparaiso to a city of colors floating at sea. Huddled on the two sides of the street are little colored houses and walls smeared with graffiti, as if a rainbow of colors exploded.

Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet and Nobel Prize Winner, described Valparaiso as a city sinking into the sky, and he also said that if you go past each of the steps of Valparaiso, it proves you will be able to travel around the world. The critical poet was fed up with the bustling life, and then chose to live in Valparaiso, where his house with transparent windows faces the sea.