ValparaísoSquares and monuments

Victoria Square

This square is surrounded by the Cathedral, the Severin library, the Simon Bolivar square and the building of the Naval Club. For over 200 years this has been a public area, with beautiful boulevards and immense trees.

Sotomayor Square

Considered to be a Typically Protected Area since 1979, it is located facing Muelle Prat (where one can observe the incessant activity of the port) and the Estacion Puerto (Port Station) of the railway.

Anibal Pinto Square

Its narrow alleyways and the singular harmony of its old and new buildings, as well as Neptune's Fountain, placed at its mid-point in 1892, were the reasons it was named as a "Typical" Area.

Echaurren Square

This is Valparaiso's first square. Its origin is colonial, and the central pillar was built after the establishment of the city's first cabildo (colonial municipality), in 1789.

O'Higgins Square

This is the ideal place for those who seek strange items from bygone times, because it is the site of the traditional La Merced flea-market of books and antiques, full of items such as sea chests, mirrors and early gramophones, among other relics of olden days.

Wheelwright Square

This square is called after Guillermo Wheelwright (1798-1873), an engineer who introduced steamships, the telegraph and the railway in Chile.