Trips to Chile

Santiago is the capital of the Metropolitan Region and Chile. The Metropolitan region is smallest of the country; here is the main center political-office staff, cultural financier and of Chile. It is region is characterized by his potential of hydric, mining and tourist resources.

The original design of the city considered 35 apples around a Place of Arms and limited both flanks with arms of the Mapocho river both, one of which is today the Bernardine Liberating Avenue Or' Higgins, main santiaguina artery.

At present, Santiago has become a modern city, that concentrates great part of the cultural activity, economic, industrial and commercial of the country. In their centric area the old buildings are located, you soothe of the most important institutions, the outstanding museums and monuments, that represent great part of the history of the city and the country.

The capital of Chile was founded on 1541, by the Spanish conqueror Pedro de Valdivia, on the foot of the small called hill Huelén, today Santa Lucia. It was baptized like “Santiago of the New End” or “Santiago of the New Extremadura”, “Santiago” by the Santiago Apostle of Spain, and “New Extremadura” by the region where it had been born.

Throughout its history, Santiago has been reuniting a series of architectonic treasures that they invite to give a slow stroll to discover splendid buildings like “the Red House”, of colonial and construída style in 1769, today turned into Museum; the “palace of the Currency”, neoclassic style and soothes of the Chilean Government and the magnificent Cathedral, that dates from 1785.
Other interesting sites are the extensive parks of the city, the Place of Arms, the General Cemetery and the great Museum of Beautiful Arts, abierto in 1910. The environs of the Museum invite to take a break in the way and to stop itself to take a coffee.

Santiago also has luxurious hotels and tempters restaurants where a delicious pasty or a succulent plate of fish or seafood can be tasted, while it is enjoyed some of magnificent Chilean wines.
The city has an ideal location, between beaches and mountains covered with snow. This allows to ski to only 50 km of distance or, if it is the case, to take a refreshing bath in beaches from Vine of the Sea, near Valparaiso.

Also it offers the “Routes of the wine”, fascinating itineraries to different vineyards and warehouses, where not only exquisite stocks can be savored, but also to imbuir itself of the Chilean culture sharing a drink with the people of this wonderful earth.

Sites of interest in the environs:

• Castle Sheepfolds of Pirque
• Drawer of the Maipo
• National reserve Clarillo River
• Chapel and the Station the Apple tree
• Valley of the River Maipo
• Volcano and Tupungatito Glacier

He is interesting to visit the lagoons Dwelled, Black Lagoon and Lagoon the Water pipe. The Summit Dwelled and the Sanctuary of the Nature, Cascade of the Bores.