Barrio Puerto & Cerro Concepción Free Tour

This three-hour walk starts at Plaza Sotomayor, the ceremonial square that faces the working port and holds the monument to the sailors of the Battle of Iquique, then climbs into Barrio Puerto, the oldest part of the city, where 19th-century warehouses and customs buildings still line the streets closest to the sea.

From there your guide rides (or climbs alongside) the historic Ascensor Concepción, built in 1883 and the oldest funicular still running in Valparaíso, up to Cerro Concepción — the hill where British and German merchant families settled a century ago, leaving behind a Lutheran church, wooden balconies and the Paseo Gervasoni viewpoint that frames the whole bay.