Street art and graffiti are becoming more and more common the world over but in Chile at least, street art is becoming a recognized art form to be celebrated. In Valparaiso there are entire neighborhoods just filled with buildings dedicated to it.
The district of Cerro Alegre
Valparaíso today is a renowned “open-air art museum” of street art, with its most famous, colorful, and dense murals concentrated in the hilly, districts of Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepción. These neighborhoods, along with Cerro Bellavista and Barrio Puerto, feature stunning, often politically-charged, and vibrant murals that cover nearly every surface.
A street artist works on a wall in Cerro Concepción
It’s true that Chile does still suffer from the modern curse of graffiti, but it is significantly outnumbered by street art from Santiago, to Puerto Natale to Valparaíso.
Street art in Puerto Natalie…
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