Iglesia De La Vera Cruz y Casa Parroquial

1º Estación - Paola Durigutti

Iglesia De La Vera Cruz Y Casa Parroquial

At the beginning of the 1800-century there was a rumor about an abode-brick-house that was supposed to belong to Pedro de Valdivia.
The business manager from Spain, Salvador de Tavira, decided on 1847 to build a church to Pedro de Valdivia and choose this place.
On October of 1852 they started its construction with Santiago city hall support.
The arquitect was Claudio Brunet de Baines. After his death the Chilean arquitect Fermín Vivaceta continued his work.
The church was founded-unfinished- on 1855 and was concluded in 1857.The front is peaceful and balanced with a Roman and Renaissance style. The two houses next to the church are part of the old house.
The King of Spain donated the Jesus Christ inside on the 16 century.

Plaza Mulato Gil y Museos view

The Mulato Gil Square, today is a very known place by intellectuals. It has restaurants and two museums, the Santiago Archeology museum (Museo Arqueológico de Santiago) y and Visual Arts museum (Museo de Artes Visuales).
It was named in honor to the remarkable Peruvian Pinter mulato Gil de Castro. This Pinter lived in the house that today contains the Santiago Archeology museum.
Visual Arts museum is private and has a beautiful collection of books, magazines, maps and historical archives that date up to 1500 years ago.

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Museo Bellas Artes, Casa Velasco e Iglesia Santo Domingo

2º Estación - Alejandra Saavedra

The beauty is Art or the Art is beauty!!
Whatever. These concepts are built through imagination, talent, hands,metals and colour of the artist.This union between art and beauty represent the Museo Bellas Artes.
The building was start in 1905 and was found September 21 of 1910. The construction started in 100 years old Independence Day commemoration. The chilean architect Emilio Jécquier wanted to give a classic style to the building .
This palace is the symbol of culture, art and history of our city. For all these reasons this museum it is a part of our patrimony.

The Art through the music is also a form of expression. In the Casa Velasco, the “tertulias” (a people social reunion) including conversation besides musical session, generally with “clavecin” and guitar. All the Casa Velasco owners families had many political, social and economic influence during “colonia” period. This house was built by the end of the XVIII century. Actually it is propriety of CORFO, a governmental office.

If we speak of history, culture and beauty the Iglesia Santo Domingo has all the ingredients necessary to watching it with atention! Its origin construction dates from 1557. Since the day it was finish many earthquakes (three in total) destroyed the building. The actuality church was found in 1771. Joaquín Toesca was the architect that finished this last reconstruccion.

If you look closely you can see that all buildings of this journey are part of our country cultural patrimony. They have many years old. They are part of the older city center and all are protected.

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Museo Bellas Artes

Casa Velasco




Iglesia Santo Domingo

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Correos de Chile

3º Estación - Ivar Pardo


Correos de Chile

When Santiago was founded, this piece of land was asigned for /to the founder of the city , pedro de valdivia. he built his house in this corner, and after his death it was used by other governors as a house. Then the house suffered different transformations, until it became in a neoclasic building. In 1820 it was call " the goverment palace". In 1846 the president Manuel Bulnes changed this house for the present palace of goverment, known today as "La Moneda" After many tragedies like the earthquakes in 1927 and 1985, big fires in 1881 and 1999, it was finally reinaugurated in 2001.

Cabildo

"In the same place where was the cabildo and jail operated in the coonila period, Mr Joaquin Toesca was build in 1785 a new building , but it was burn totally, then Eugenio Joannon rebuilt the building after the fire, preserving the neoclasic stile but he introduced a italian renaissance characteristics in to the building in 1891"

Museo Histórico Nacional

When Pedro de Valdivia died on the Battle of Tucapal on december 26th , 1553, his "solar" was divided in three parts: the governor's residence , known now as a "correo central" (post office). the real audiencia known now as "Historic National Museum" , and the last part was the city council (cabildo) , knwon now as a "City Hall of Santiago".
Here the most important events in chilean history took place such as the like the declaration of the independence of our country. Here we have the justice palace, and the first venue of chiliean congress. It was also rebuilt several times after natural events like the earthquakes of 1647 and 1730

Correos de Chile

Real Audiencia

Municipalidad de Santiago

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Catedral de Santiago y el 777

4º Estación - Jorge Cerda

Catedral de Santiago y el 777

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Museo de Arte Precolombino

5º Estacion - Mirciades Martínez

Museo de Arte Precolombino

This is Museum is located in one of chile’s most emblematic buildings of the colonial period. Originally this building was the palace of the National Library and finally the courts of justice. Since 1980 is the museum of exhibits approximately 3.000 pieces of arts and thoughts of the American people this museum has one the oldest and more important collection in the Americas.

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Palacio de la Moneda

6º Estación - Analía Ramírez

Palacio de la Moneda

Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile

7º Estación - Gonzalo De Terán




Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile






Its the most imporrtant center of artistic activities in Santiago. Here there have been perfonmances such as Opera, Ballet and high standar concerts.
It was built on 1853 in a piece of land occupied by Real Universidad de San Felipe, the first university in Chile (1738-1839), later it became in Universidad de Chile.
By decree of president Manuel Montt and his internal affair’s minister Antonio Varas, the Santiago’s city council was authrized to build a theater on this land.
It was founded on September 17th 1857. and it was named National Monument on August 09th 1974.
It has French Neoclassical style. Tthe most famous artists of national and intenational importance had been on that stage; Anna Pavlovna (Ballet), Margot Fonteyn (Ballet), Ballet Kirov of Saint Petersburg, Sophía Amic-Ghazan (singer), Verónica Villarroel (worldwide famous Chilean Opera singer), Plácido Domingo, Ramón Vinay (Chilean singer named like “the best performer of OTELLO” on years 1947 to 1959, Mischa Elman (Violinist), Arthur Rubinstein (pianist), Rosita Renard (Chilean pianist with international prestige) Claudio Arrau, Just to mention some...













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