VISITORS' MASSIVE ARRIVAL AFTER REOPENING OF THE BABURIZZA

More than thousand persons visited the recently re-opened Palace Baburizza during the last weekend. The building, which shelters the Municipal Museum of Fine arts, received tourists and local visitors who managed in mass to cross the place after 15 of years of being closed to the public.
Constructed in 1915 by order the merchant Ottorino Zanelli, in 1916 was acquired by Pascual Baburizza. Merchant, outfitter, shipping businessman in Top Sands and salitrero in the north, Baburizza was a philanthropist who realized important contributions, being one of the most important his collection of European painting donated to the city of Valparaiso in 1940.
The enclosure shelters not only the collection of European painting (from 1840 to 1930), but also the sea collection initially organized by the painter Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma (from 1840 to 1960). Together with them also one finds the collection of Chilean painting assembled by the painter Camilo Mori and the writer Augusto D'Halmar (from 1870 to 1950), composed fundamentally by landscapes of all the styles, portraits, figures, dead, marine natures and varied compositions
The Palace Baburizza is an icon of the city and there was declared Historical National Monument in 1979, for the Supreme Decree 1876. His reopening is the result of an important work of restoration and rehabilitation that an inversión meant of more than two billion weight, and that considered in addition the improvement of the Yugoslavian Walk and the construction of a restaurant and a cafeteria. The schedule of visit of the museum is from Tuesday until Sunday between the 10.30 and 17.30 hours.