Valparaiso Cultural Park

The Valparaiso Cultural Park is defined by a massive, stark white building that anchors the hilltop of Cerro Cárcel. This sprawling complex sits on a flat esplanade overlooking the bay, its modern architecture contrasting with the surrounding hillside neighborhoods. What you are seeing occupies the site of the city’s former public prison, which held inmates for over one hundred and fifty years until its closure in nineteen ninety-nine.