Sights Santiago, Chile

Center City is the Plaza de Armas ( "Space Weapons") with a monument to the founder of the city - Pedro de Valdivia, as well as the monument "Freedom America" and a monument to the first Chilean Cardinal Jose Maria Caro. Around the area are concentrated most of the historical monuments - the Governor's House, The City, the building of the Royal Audiencia (1804-1808 gg. Now the Historical Museum is located here), Colonnade Fernandez-Concha, colorful Mercado Central (Central Market, 1868), Cathedral ( 1748-1775 gg.), post office building, pedestrian walkway Paseo Ahumada and palace complex of La Moneda (1788-1805 gg.) - the presidential palace and place of the "last battle" of President Allende.

Nearby are the Municipal Theater of Opera and Ballet (1857-1873 gg.), Mount San Cristobal (860 meters), renowned for its famous statue of the Virgin Mary (height 36 m), casino "Cumbre", an extensive park, zoo and cable cars "teleferiko" . From the foot of the statue, with the very same ground where Pope John Paul II read a mass during his visit to Santiago in 1984, offers a magnificent view of the city and the ridge of the Andes. At the foot of the mountain is divided magnificent Botanical Gardens (712 ha), which, besides extensive floral collection, you can find folklore center "Victoria" and wine bar "Camino Real". Of the numerous parks in the capital deserve attention to Central City Park (1900), which is surrounded by numerous colonial buildings, and various places of entertainment, so-called "Trade Park, which represents a green city market, the park" Quinta Normal "with numerous playgrounds as well as parks Balmaseda, Santa Lucia and the Metropolitano.

District Barrio Bellyavista, known as the "Paris Block", is one of the brightest areas of the city. This bohemian district with countless villa in colonial style, quiet walkways, "ethnic" restaurants and an active crafts fair on Friday and Saturday. Equally colorful areas of Providencia, El Golf, Vitacura and Las Condes, as well as the pedestrian street Uerfonos, Central Station and the street Repubblica. Worth visiting the Cathedral of St. Augustine (1625), the Basilica of the Virgin Mercedes, building the Catholic University (1913), the Basilica of the Angels in the park Balmaseda, Providence Church (1880), the Church of Thanksgiving (1863), the church and the College of the Holy Hearts (1849), Palace of Elgin (1861), the National Library with the mausoleum of Bernardo O'Higgins, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a children's play complex "Mapuche" and "Alley figures.

Santiago has many museums, including the wonderful Museum of Art Chilean pre-Columbian era, the Museum of Modern Art (1947), the National Museum of History (1911), the National Museum of Fine Arts (in 1880, the oldest museum in Latin America) with a fine collection of European and Chilean art, the Museum of Santiago in the house of Casa Colorado ( "color house") and the most modern planetarium mainland. Particular attention should be given house-museum of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (La Chaskona), literally embedded in rock at the foot of San Cristobal. And all the plain south of the city is one of the world's largest wine-producing regions. On the slopes of the surrounding mountains there are many first-class ski centers.