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Nostalgia. It hasn't changed a bit ; Valparaiso is the stuff of sea shanties. Christian Walsh reports
2003
Overview
A cavalcade of sailors, pirates, poets and artists have been entranced by Valparaiso, comparing it to Europe's finest trading posts and cultural capitals. What this ramshackle port has in common with Venice and Florence has nothing to do with fine architecture - most of the buildings are humble corrugated iron shacks - or glamorous lifestyles, as the population are largely employed as sailors and dockhands. Valparaiso is, in the Chilean author Salvador Reyes's words, \"La Puerto de Nostalgia\". It was through this \"puerto\" that the world came to Chile on trading boats bound for the west coast of the New World and to the Spice Islands in the Pacific. Any ship rounding the horn set a course straight for Valparaiso. Then the city went from boom to bust almost overnight when, in 1914, the Panama Canal was opened, enabling ships to bypass this southernmost part of the world. But even if the handsome colonial buildings are crumbling, Valparaiso still has great regional importance, and the fact that the city is so vibrant and \"lived-in\", makes it worthy of comparisons with other decaying seaside cities such as Marseille, Havana or Tangier.
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Independent Digital News & Media
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