Public transport Valparaíso

The metro, inaugurated in 2005, connects the port district of Valparaíso to Limache (near La Campana National Park), via Viña del Mar and Quilpué. In Valpo, you can take it at the following stations: Port Prat (near Sotomayor Square), Bellavista (Lider supermarket, near Ecuador Square), Avenida Francia (at the end of the avenue), Barón (at the end of Argentina Avenue). The frequency is very regular throughout the day (every 6 or 12 minutes), but there is no service after 10:30 pm. It runs along the seafront at the beginning.

Once numbering 31 (the first was built in 1883), these "elevators" were essential for people living on the sloping cerros to get to the center of town. They are in fact funiculars, as they move along rails laid at an angle, with the exception of the Polanco elevator, which moves vertically. Today, 12 elevators have been destroyed, 7 are still operational (the number varies from 5 to 8 every two months), and the others are either in ruins or being restored.