Recent years have focused on rescuing Chile's film archive, establishing Valparaiso as one of the most important and unique festivals in the country.

Directory of Archive Libraries and Museums Av Pedro Montt 2502, Valparaíso, Chile

Carlos Van Buren Hospital is a health care center of high complexity located in the fifth region of the country. It serves an estimated population of 455,693 patients a year. It has three emergency units and four intensive care units. The vast majority of Specialty Clinical Services are surgical. It is a regional reference center in the specialties of ophthalmology, oncology, ENT and Hemodialysis. In addition, attached to its facilities and under its administrative authority is the Townhouse Specialty Clinic, an outpatient diagnostic and therapeutic center.

The Integrated Library System at the University of Valparaiso is the unit that plans, coordinates and manages the acquisition, management, promotion and distribution of services and information resources.

Biblioteca Santiago Severin Biblioteca Santiago Severín is Chile's first public library and the most important of its kind in Valparaiso and the surrounding area.

The Center for the Study of Contemporary Urban Development is a private cultural non-profit organization whose main mission is to promote the cultural life of the city, by creating an area of dissemination, information and debate on issues of citizen interest related to art, architecture and urban studies.

El Mercurio de Valparaiso is the oldest newspaper in Chile, as well as the oldest Castilian paper in the world still in circulation.

Infantry Regiment No. 2 "Maipo" was first known as "Battalion No. 2 Birth of the Nation." Founded on October 20, 1811, the regiment's trail in history seemed to disappear after 1817. It was not until the organization of the Liberation Army that it reappeared under a new name, forming a company that was in the Capital in what would be the headquarters of Recoleta Dominica. It participated in the Battle of Cancharayada and the Battle of Maipú, at which time, the Battalion returned to its old headquarters in the capital. After a few months, considering that the government was necessary to provide a drive to the first port of the Republic, it moved back to Valparaiso.

Archivo Dereojo Comunicaciones Born in Valparaiso in 1997, Dereojo Communications is an independent company which focuses on audiovisual creation and development. Even before its establishment, through personal projects and previous producers, it has been strongly committed to the creation of an iconographic video archive from the region.

Archivo Obispado de Valparaiso Their documentary heritage includes the history of ecclesiastical institutions, sacramental matters, maps, pastoral documents and administrative court. It is distributed between the diocese and the respective parishes.

Interesting background registers, photographs, drawings folders and projects undertaken by the school that houses it. It is characterized by looking at the architecture from an artistic perspective, taking Godofredo Iommi's poem "America" as the starting point for its philosophy.

The Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy, also known by its acronym SHOA is the official agency of the state in matters of hydrographic, oceanographic and nautical charting. It is also the authority responsible for setting the time in Chile.

It is a specialized library available to researchers, dissertators and scholars with a unique collection of books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, brochures and other resources on the most diverse areas of knowledge. Its mission is to satisfy the information needs of users. It also supports the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and works to recover the history of Valparaiso and the surrounding region.

The documents stored therein are directly related to the administrative work of the cemetery, however, are of great historical value because the data are archived for those who were part of the Buenos Aires society of yesteryear and today.

Libroalegre Children's Library is a reading center for children that has a collection of illustrated books from around the world in addition to a playroom with educational materials.

The Library of National Congress of Chile (BCN) is a service that helps the Chilean Congress as an information center to the Senate and House of Representatives. The Library serves as a reference for parlimentarians in the field of social sciences, law, history of law and the social, economic, political and cultural center of Chile. Its current director is Soledad Ferreiro Serrano.

Research Unit, documentation and dissemination of music in Chile, primarily from oral tradition, which belongs to the Catholic University of Valparaiso. It was created in 1998 at the wish of the local folklorist Margot Loyola, who donated her musical instruments and ethnographic records of her investigations.

Set in a house remodeled in the minimalist style, Cafe Tre Vien offers delicious cakes with coffee or tea. It offers a small selection of sandwiches on its lunch menu. From its terrace you can enjoy the view over the bay.

It's coffee, but also an active library and cultural center for the neighborhood with activities for children and adults. It is comfortable, colorful and welcoming. Guest enjoy a peaceful read on the patio. Winner of the Eleven Comprehensive City in 2007, offers coffee Mussetti in various preparations, various types of tea, milkshakes, an extensive menu of sandwiches, cakes, biscuits and lunch menu.

Located within the Casa Mirador de Lukas cultural center and museum, the cafe offers a traditional cafeteria menu, including salads and ice cream. Seeking to serve tourists visiting the place, its decoration is based on the work of artist from Buenos Aires.

If you are looking for a good selection of teas, this is the right place. It has more than sixty varieties of black, green and flavored teas. To accompany the tea, sweet and salty snacks are available, all prepared right there in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere. This is evidenced by the memories and photographs of guests that decorate the walls. It also offers a daily menu with vegetarian options and on weekends there is live music.

An outdoor museum run by the Chilean Navy. The city council of Viña del Mar appointed it a historic site. Located in the Las Salinas sector, this outdoor museum displays canons from various countries and eras.

Renzo Pecchenino Raggi - Lukas - (1934 -1989) stood out for his excellence as an illustrator in Chile and abroad, and became renowned for his cartoons which appeared in the newspaper La Union and El Mercurio. He is recognized as the most notorious of the artists who recreated the port of Valparaiso and its inhabitants.

The puppet and clown theatre and museum is the perfect place for fantasy, illusion, entertainment and surprises. Located in the Cerro Cárcel, it presents collections of dolls, puppets, giant carnival masks and photographs about the history and life of the Chilean circus. It also leads workshops and surprises the crowd with plays for the whole family.

Open Air Museum is the name of an original art show, located in Valparaiso. It consists of a series of 20 murals, close to each other, turning the landscape into a space for promoting art and culture. It is a visual gift not only for local residents, but also for the many tourists who visit the city.

In its eight rooms spread over two levels, this museum exhibits objects and information on more than 20,000 animal and plant species - fossils, taxidermy, etc. - many of them endemic to the area.

Opened in 2001, its attraction is the remains of the first pier of Valparaiso -1825. This was built with the remains of the first Esmeralda, a Spanish ship captured by the Chilean navy in 1820, which had run aground on the coast then, on what is today the Plaza Sotomayor. The ruins were discovered in 1999 when excavations were made to build parking lots. Once unearthed, the structure was named Emerald Quay.

This museum is called "La Sebastiana" in honor of Sebastian Collado, a Spaniard who sought a place where he could embrace all Valparaiso with his eyes, but died before finishing the project. Pablo Neruda found it after many years of being abandoned and liked it so much that it seemed to him that Don Sebastian, though not a poet of words, was a poet of architecture, and so Neruda called it "La Sebastiana". Neruda began to fill the house with spaces, stairways and colors, turning the house into a museum.

Located within the Quinta Vergara, Potrerillos Park. It opened in September 2008 and is the latest initiative of heritage education in Viña del Mar, carried out in order to appreciate and understand art in a participatory and entertaining way, through interactive experiences for visitors, especially young people--with 85 reproductions of great works of world art. This museum consists of 644 square meters and is inspired by a teaching move Santiago.

Nestled in the Cerro Artillería, framed by the tour May 21 with a more traditional views of the harbor at its feet, is the Naval and Maritime Museum in Valparaiso. Dependent on the Chilean Navy, the Museum has as its main task to preserve the collections in custody and spread the naval and maritime heritage of Chile. Collections consider both the tangible--of documentary, bibliographic and museum--like intangibles associated with the naval history of Chile and understanding of Chilean identity as a maritime people.

Its permanent collection includes more than 600 musical instruments from around the world. It shows the development of instruments in the history and meaning for their cultures of origin. It has a workshop luthiería - manufacturing of instruments - a recording studio and music therapy room.

Inspired by garage sales, home to all sorts of things, this store has a large variety of styles and tastes. Its decor is in line with recycling and reuse of objects. It offers Chilean crafts, such as loom rugs of natural fibers, and copper, silver and aluminum pendants from rural areas like Panguipulli.

A shop of various products in the line of accessories, decoration and cleanliness. It stands as a social platform of fair trade. It also communicates with respect for the environment, which offers accessories of hemp, wicker utensils, soaps, bath salts and handmade hair products. It imports crafts from Nepal and sells items of Tibetan culture.

Located within the school of photography, this site offers original image objects such as ashtrays, posters and works of artists. It also sells supplies for the office, but undoubtedly the most striking are the Lomo cameras, being the sole representatives of the brand in Valparaiso.

On one side of Paseo Atkinson, this store is unique workshop of loom designs, made with sheep's wool. A mixture of modern cuts and ancient techniques for women's and children's clothing. It also offers a men's clothing line from designer Ignacio Lechuga and textile accessories.

A small garage that sells menswear and womenswear: for him, linen shirts, and for her, the collection of designer Ismenia Leiva. It also offers art pieces like sculptures, photographs, paintings and crafts, as well as toys and accessories.

Bazaar and Chilean design shop that offers clothing for women and men from Heartbreak Tango and Design Humita accessories made with recycled materials. It also sells music from national groups such as Denver, Collective Ethereal, Olga and Chinoy, and is the official distributor store for Joia magazine in Valparaiso.

A recognized showcase for regional artists such as Edgar del Canto, Loro Coirón, Gonzalo Ilabaca and Eduardo Mena, among others. The gallery offers works of printmaking, drawing, painting and photography. Its thematic approaches have political, social and cultural focuses. The gallery, in its work as producer, displays samples in different parts of the local art scene. It works behind closed doors in pursuit of personal attention, building close relationships with curators.

It belongs to the Balmaceda Arte Joven cultural center and is aimed at emerging as well as established artists in the region, as a contribution to the development of the visual arts. It is a wide space of about fifty square meters with high ceilings, which exhibits four to five samples between July and November each year. The criteria for selecting the works, of any style or technique, are professionalism, originality and conceptual consistency.

As part of the school of photography of the same name, it aims to expose the visual work of students and artists in general. In addition, its original store offers items such as ashtrays with pictures, posters and works of artists. But undoubtedly, the most striking are the Lomo cameras, being the sole representatives of the brand in Valparaiso.

Located since 2005 in the former Post Office building in Chile, a Modernist building of great architectural value, it offers wide open spaces where they perform around twenty exhibitions per year. With a public nature, its premise is to keep culture moving. The exhibition has three sections: Hall, space for samples related to important anniversaries such as the Day of Visual Arts and Heritage; Gallery CNCA, focused on contemporary art and photography; and Zocalo Room, with emphasis on regional creations.

The Center for the Study of Contemporary Urban Development, a non-profit private cultural corporation, aims to be a contribution to the cultural life of Valparaíso. This is why it has opened some of their units for exhibitions of art, architecture and urban planning.

Focused on promoting emerging artists, the Board Lucrecia Acuña is open to any proposal. The selection process is based on talent and not on the path. The room is situated on the second floor, including a window on the first floor overlooking the busy street Esmeralda. The displays change every month.

Small space generated by the visual artist Eva Hajnal, who provides local artists with a network of international contacts, articulated during her stay in Paris. It has a permanent collection of photographs, collages, engravings, lithographs, oils and acrylics. Some of the artists are Loro Coirón, Patricio González, Mario Maroua, cofounder of the group of Latin American painters Magic Picture, and Eva Hajnal herself. It also has a section of literary works, mostly French.

With more than three decades of bringing art to the city, the gallery has individual works and collections from renowned masters of the arts nationally and internationally. Every year it holds the National Youth Art and Poetry Competition, which brings together known artists as a jury and hundreds of applicants. The selected pieces are exposed in the bright and spacious room.

Known as the alchemist's workshop, it belongs to Jorge Martínez García, printmaker and painter who lives and works in a classical mansion in Cerro Alegre. Its exhibits include paintings, drawings, monotypes and prints. Some of his series on this technique are Animals Canonical, Valparaíso, Shamanism and American Baroque. It also takes inspiration from literature: Cavafy and Malcolm Lowry collection.

A meat-free menu, with options for lunch and afternoon tea. Classic dishes of the place are various preparations for tofu and gluten, pizzas, pastas, wheat empanadas, galletones and natural juices. It also offers a daily menu with a convenient value. These delicacies are enjoyed in the bright and spacious offices on the second floor of an old house in Valparaíso.

Small space, simple and welcoming owner, a native of Montpellier, opened to settle in Valparaiso. It is the first restaurant of this heritage area. Offers a daily menu from Tuesday to Sunday and on-demand service on weekends at night. His customers reward him for their cheap prices and quality of cuisine. Some of their dishes are filet paisson avec sa sauce and quiche lorraine. To drink, wine, beer and Pisco Sour.

More than eighty years serving the needs of office workers and businessmen traveling to the financial district. The food is plentiful, traditional international court, where the grid meats share space with seafood. The décor in wood tones and details such as the enormous bar, contribute to its quality of a typical place of the city.

His style is international and is spread over meat and fish options for careful bill. All personal style, courtesy of its chef and owner. Environmentally wood tones dominate space and modernity, highlighting the terrace overlooking the sea and the back of several houses in the historic heritage. A particularly nice scene of Valparaiso.

Small cozy bar and restaurant, whose specialty is tapas, tortillas and Catalan-style tables, as its name implies. To drink they offer a large selection of wines, beers and drinks. Of detailed decoration, frequented by a young adult audience.

Its warm atmosphere, filled with antiques and classic furniture, appeals to nostalgia for the great port of yesteryear. But from their canteens in the city seems a pretty picture that reaffirms that look to the past. In the style is international food with an emphasis on seafood. Highlights the creations of their chefs.

Malandrino is the result of deep admiration for the peasant culture and Neapolitan cuisine. The owner of Italian origin, has lived his years in Ravello, and his passion for cooking, were found with Valparaiso.

It specializes in pizzas and pasta, along to a limited but precise list of beers and wines. All set in a thoughtful decoration to refer to the past. Old refrigerators, a wurlitzer - it works very well - and old photographs are complemented by cordial and relaxed disposition of those who serve. Ideal for a stopover on the heritage walk at all hours.

The fragrance and expression of the most representative cuisine of Southeast Asia appears at this restaurant. Following its heritage facade emerges a small space, modern interior. Its menu includes more than a dozen alternatives - addings include salad, side dish and dessert - to which is added a respectable variety of juices prepared the minutes, wines and beers. A contribution to the cosmopolitan environment of Valparaíso

A magnificent, spacious home, which overlooks much of the city. Has three comfortable rooms and an international menu with emphasis on the east, which is expressed in Indian dishes, Thai and Arabic. Shares the building with the Valparaiso Foundation, so you can access tourist information, product literature and alluding to the city. On weekends there is live music.

Located in a passage of the hill, ideal for those who like the hidden and intimate, consisting of a lounge and terrace with beautiful view, a few tables but elegant atmosphere. The home plate is the Piqueo Peruano, a selection of three inputs, ceviche, octopus in olive and cause of crab. A delight.

Resto Lounge located in one of the most touristic areas. Spacious interior design based on recycling of furniture and objects. The atmosphere of relaxation is given by the use of low beams, Indian music and reggae. It offers appetizers, entrees and desserts vegetarian. Table Epiphany is a sample of your kitchen. To drink: tea with spices, organic coffee, wine, cocktails and beer. It has games and for cultural activities such as electro gigs and audiovisual displays.

With a relaxed atmosphere, small but colorful and inviting, is known for its lunch menu and naturist letter. From fruit smoothies and yogurts, even their cakes, creams, salads and sandwiches, everything is made with natural ingredients such as basil and goat cheese. Their diet includes fish and seafood. Data aside, it is known to provide information on the city's cultural activities

It has more than seven decades in Victoria Square, serving generations of locals with its tender crumb sandwich, ice cream and all natural juices. The variety is extensive and highlights the freshness of each of its preparations, prepared before your eyes. Attention to serve on local and carry.

It is one of the best examples of how haute cuisine of seafood was prepared decades ago. You have to add a composite service with seasoned waiters and a chic and comfortable, crowned with a remarkable view of the port task - ask for reservations for New Year - The sum of these factors have become one of the most known of the city.

The variety on offer is the main attraction, 23 types of fish, imported from Argentina, Peru and Vietnam, the shore is a rock and depths. Gourmet in taste and presentation, has a commanding view of the bay. Anecdotally, restaurant chairs were painted as the colors of the houses that surround it.

With over 110 years of operation, is the oldest restaurants in Valparaiso and one of the most renowned. Not so much for its food, mainly oriented to meat from Chile, but for their live music performances. Here, tangos, boleros, cuecas and other rhythms are played by singers with decades of occupation, that create a particular atmosphere of the old bohemian.

Gervasoni Hotel restaurant, which boasts the same exclusivity and refined international cuisine. Housed in a building of 1870, which retains the original style of his sets, has a wine cellar with over a hundred labels. It has a panoramic terrace of Valparaiso.

Legend has it that in this place invented the most famous of the dishes created in the port, the Chorrillana: scrambled eggs with minced meat, egg and onion on a bed of French fries. This milestone was enough to make local celebrity today. The rest, your daily menu of Creole food in a space crammed with antiques, striped walls, camaraderie and above all, memories.

This popular local sector offers a gourmet menu that rescue techniques of the national food culture. Sealing include salmon, rabbit in sauce, meatloaf and pebre of algae. Among the desserts, ice cream, avocado and olive mouse. You can also enjoy their coffee beans, teas, juices, pastries and specialties such as Aztec Chocolate: chocolate thick mouse to point, grated coconut and chocolate chips.

Santiago de Chile, or simply Santiago is the capital and largest urban center of Chile. The metropolitan area is also known as Gran Santiago and is also for the capital of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago.

Viña del Mar, is recognized as the tourist capital of Chile as the "Garden City" because it is surrounded by large green areas. It has 13 beaches (about 3.5 miles), the most important is the Reñaca sector, the city's main resort, with life itself and all the facilities and infrastructure to receive large numbers of tourists.

This resort's central coast of Chile is known as a major shopping and entertainment, in which there is a lively nightlife on the weekends, especially during the summer months.

Beaches with a gentle slope toward the sea, has a warm temperate climate of the West. Is determined by cold ocean currents that sweep the coasts and sea winds moderate temperatures. The climate in the region reaches an average of 20 ° C during the summer and 15 ° C in winter.