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Palacio Astoreca
A Croatian businessman built the palace in the 1920s as a gift to his English wife, to ease her homesickness. It sat unused for decades under city government oversight before a Swiss-Chilean couple bought it in 2009, spent two years and five million dollars restoring it with architect Mathias Klotz, and opened Palacio Astoreca in 2012 on Cerro Alegre — the hill at the centre of Valparaíso's UNESCO heritage zone. Twenty-three rooms across four categories, original parquet floors throughout, a piano bar, a wine cave, and a slate spa with an indoor pool and log-fire hot tub. The restaurant, Alegre, brought in a chef with prior posting at El Bulli. The building overlooks Paseo Yugoslavo and the city's port beyond it.
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The hotel
The design
Architect Mathias Klotz. Five million dollars. Two years. The parquet floors are original.
Klotz's restoration kept the historical bones — original parquet, period proportions — and introduced clean contemporary interiors that let the building's age do the work. The palace's exterior, red and white stucco on Cerro Alegre, has become one of the more recognisable facades on a hill already famous for its painted architecture. The wine cave below the restaurant is available for pre-dinner tastings.
The design
Architect Mathias Klotz. Five million dollars. Two years. The parquet floors are original.
Klotz's restoration kept the historical bones — original parquet, period proportions — and introduced clean contemporary interiors that let the building's age do the work. The palace's exterior, red and white stucco on Cerro Alegre, has become one of the more recognisable facades on a hill already famous for its painted architecture. The wine cave below the restaurant is available for pre-dinner tastings.
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