Ex-Carcel Valparaiso

... swings and slides and poles surrounded by recycled tires - this was the ultimate anarchist playground. We got a private tour of the ex-carcel museum by a man who was incarcerated in different prisons for 25 years for stealing. He gave us free raspberry ...

... , his house was beautiful.  I promise to steal pictures of it sometime.   After old Pablo's house, we decided to visit the "ex-carcel", which is the ex prison that has now been turned into an art space.  It was quite difficult to find, ...

... but I thought I'd go ahead and upload my pictures from today.  After both of my classes, I went with my usual group to Ex-Carcel (the ex-prison) to paint a little grafitti of my own!  As you can see from the pictures, we started painting over a ...

... a winner. We visited a new space that not many tourists tack on to their visit to the city. There is a cultural centre called Ex-Carcel  that is a public creative space in an old prison high up on the hill. This space has loads of potential. ...

... the open air museum which is streets of art work that the locals have painted on the walls.  We also visited the museum of Ex Carcel the famous poet.  We did not go in though we just enjoyed his garden and sat in the shade for a while.  ...

... up Valparaíso, the beach, the night life, and my friends as possible before leaving. *Went to the Ex-Carcel ("Ex Prison"- this was Valparaiso's prison for over 100 years including during Pinochet's dictatorship. When they shut it down in 1999 it was ...

... had been a simple attraction to all that was new. This was the real deal. We had to drag ourselves away from the ex-carcel and meander back towards the cemetery in order to find the grave of Emilie Dubois, a vagabond Frenchman infamous in Valparaíso ...

Traveling, there are some places you fall quickly and stupidly in love with. Valparaiso, Chile's historical and once-again great port, sits in a protected cove North and West of Santiago. The lair of indominable poet Pablo Neruda, the city stubbornly ...