Events in Valparaiso

Cultural Carnivals

Between Christmas and New Year, as the summer begins and people begin preparations to celebrate the end of the year facing the sea, is when theater and dance companies, painters, musicians, filmmakers, cooks, photographers, and folk performers take to the streets for three entire days to show off the best of their repertories in Valparaiso's Cultural Carnival.

Since its creation in 2001, a great show has been put on in different parts of the city – the port neighborhood, Cerro Baron, Playa Ancha, and in the fishermen's beach area in Bordemar – though the mass events take place in the biggest and most traditional public places. For hours, tens of national and foreign artists parade across the big stages in Plaza Sotomayor, Parque Italia, and the Former Prison Cultural Center.

Hundreds of thousands of people gather around the stages or along the streets waiting for marching bands dressed in colorful suits and in fantastic shapes that represent a different subject every year. This is a celebration that is united with the rest o the world, paying homage to other city-ports. The cities represented so far have been Barcelona, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Panama City, Salvador de Bahía and – in 2007 – Montevideo, providing the ideal excuse for the port's cultural soul to take to the streets.

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