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Polanco Lift, Valparaiso
Polanco Lift, Valparaiso
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Was installed in 1915 by the company Easton Lift Co. Ltd., according to engineers design and construction Federico Page. It is located between 20 and 80 meters above sea level. Their tracks have a length of 60 meters in vertical form. His posting is 50 seconds, providing Simpsons street plan of the city with the hill Polanco.
This elevator, municipal, have characteristics that differentiate it from the rest of the lifts because they are not clinging to the slope of the hill, but is preceded by a small tunnel slope of 57 meters, which reaches its base, from which rises 60 meters into a vertical tower, with access to two seasons. The first communicates with a middle sector of the hill and the second with the upper part, by a bridge 48 meters long, which is an urban viewpoint.
This lift was the first National Monument, and one that reaches greater heights.
It was declared a National Monument in 1976 |
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| Was installed in 1915 by the company Easton Lift Co. Ltd., according to engineers design and construction Federico Page. |
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| It was built in 1902 and its first owner was the Company Elevator Cerro Alegre. Today belongs to the municipality of Valparaíso. |
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| Founded on February 27, 1873 and inaugurated in 1919. It has 82 thousand volumes of books to which we must add another 260 thousand copies of newspapers and magazines |
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| This area, which computer is the hub Montealegre street, these characteristics remained throughout the nineteenth century. |
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| Castle Hill is a hill surrounded by modern buildings and old mansions of the early twentieth century |
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| The work was begun in 1844 by engineer Augusto Charms, on land obtained through artificial construction of the first pier to the sea. |
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| This building is acceded to virtually rock Cerro Concepción |
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| The first Anglican chaplains began to travel occasionally to Valparaiso in 1837 |
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| It was built in 1559 on the same site of the matrix. |
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| Sotomayor Square whit the Administration building are the civic center of Valparaiso |
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| A beautiful art nouveau style building dating from 1916. |
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| Architectural value and located at the intersection of the streets, Brazil Av Las Heras |
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| this mansion built in 1888, to be home of his brother Don Agustin Ross. |
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| The area declared a Typical Zone comprises the following buildings and the square of its environment |
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| Valparaiso Municipal Theater is a project of high level cultural heritage. |
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