Description Santiago, Chile
Santiago de Chile - a huge city, spread out on the fertile valley of the same name, sandwiched between the mountain ranges of 100 km. from the ocean. The city was founded on Feb. 12, 1541 by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, and has since been considered one of the most unusual capitals of the world (the country's capital city was in 1818).The skyscrapers of glass and concrete side by side here in the numerous churches of XVIII century, the people with the same pleasure to wear as a modern business suits and traditional tribal clothes, and fashionable districts of Providencia and Las Condes side by side with slums "kalyampas. The level of life of local people is one of the highest on the continent.