SANTIAGO, CHILE

Today, Santiago is a city that occupies the fertile central valley of Chile between the Andes and the coast, with the Mapocho River crossing the city from east to west. The most remarkable thing about Santiago, with its five million inhabitants, is perhaps its diversity. It is a city with many faces, great and varied changes, and a social and political landscape that sometimes takes us back to the colonial city it once was.

Almost 500 years after Pedro de Valdivia traced around the Plaza de Armas the 35 blocks that would compose the city in 1541, Santiago is now an extensive urban environment with skyscrapers and modern telecommunications networks. However, you need to explore it in order to discover its multiple facets that were shaped by history.

República & Dieciocho

Continuing eastward past the station and park along the Alameda are the neighborhoods of República and Dieciocho, which were once populated with the most privileged inhabitants of the country. At the end of the 19th Century and at the beginning of the 20th... more