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Date: 27/12/2025
Valparaíso sits on the Pacific coast of Chile, climbing hills the way it wants to.
No symmetry. No apology.
Houses are stacked in colors that shouldn’t work together — yet they do.
Staircases lead nowhere obvious. Elevators feel like stories themselves.
What people here are proud of is not perfection.
It’s character.
The city never tried to impress anyone with order.
It chose expression instead.
Murals speak.
Walls remember.
Valparaíso reminds you that beauty doesn’t come from alignment.
It comes from honesty.
For its people, living crooked was always more truthful than standing straight.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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