13 Sights in Provincia de Santiago, Chile (with Map and Images)

Plaza Yungay is a square located in Barrio Yungay, an historical neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, located at the western limits of the commune of Santiago. The plaza is the home of a monument commemorating the end of Chile's War of the Confederation (1836-1839) against the Peruvian and Bolivian confederation, and a church named for the saint that protects Santiago's residents from earthquakes. Today, it is a lively public space.

Wikipedia: Plaza Yungay (EN)

The Mirador Interactive Museum (MIM) is a Chilean museum of arts, sciences and nature, inaugurated in 2000. It is part of the Interactive Center of Knowledge, which also incubates the Interactive Museum of Astronomy, the Adriana Hoffman Forest, the Food Laboratory, among other initiatives that promote training, research, dissemination and conservation based on interdisciplinary practices.

Wikipedia: Museo Interactivo Mirador (ES), Website

Bicianimitas are white-painted bicycles that have been installed on the streets of Chile as a way to raise awareness of cyclists who have been run over. It is an idea similar to the "Ghost bikes" that are made in other cities around the world, but in Chile it has its own cultural element, the animitas, a secular institution to indicate people who have died violently.

Wikipedia: Bicianimita (ES)

Parque Araucano is an urban park and one of the main green areas of the commune of Las Condes, in the city of Santiago, Chile. It has 22 hectares and is located in the quadrant formed by Presidente Riesco Avenue to the south, Alonso de Córdova Avenue to the west, Manquehue Avenue to the east and Cerro Colorado Street to the north. Its eastern boundary is connected to the Juan Pablo II park through a walkway known as Puente Entre Parques

Wikipedia: Parque Araucano (ES), Website

The Museo del Carmen de Maipú is a private museum of a historical, religious and artistic nature, located in the commune of Maipú, Santiago de Chile. The place that preserves, exhibits and communicates various assets of the Chilean cultural heritage. Among the material goods are: documents, objects, carriage, furniture, textiles, photographs and works of art belonging to the history of colonial and republican Chile, in line with other pieces of European and indigenous origin.

Wikipedia: Museo del Carmen de Maipú (ES)

The Villa Francia Memorial is a monument located in Santiago, Chile. It was erected in homage to the executed politicians and the disappeared detainees of the homonymous working population, in the commune of Estación Central, in Santiago, during the military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet. It recalls 15 victims of human rights violations, who were mainly political and union leaders and militants of left-wing parties.

Wikipedia: Memorial de Villa Francia (ES)

The Memorial to Víctor Jara and Littré Quiroga was erected in tribute to five people who were found dead in the sector adjacent to the Metropolitan Cemetery in the commune of Lo Espejo in Santiago de Chile on September 16, 1973. Among them, the singer-songwriter and theater director Víctor Jara Martínez and the director of the Gendarmerie at the time Littré Quiroga Carvajal, with evidence of physical abuse and execution, next to them three more people who could not be identified were found.

Wikipedia: Memorial a Víctor Jara y Littré Quiroga (ES)

The rose garden of Araucano Park is a 2,000 m² garden specialized in the exhibition of various species and varieties of roses, which is located in the Araucano Park in the city of Santiago, Chile. It is open every day of the year and admission is free.

Wikipedia: Rosaleda del Parque Araucano (ES)

The Peñalolén Memorial Building History with the Memory of Our Martyrs was erected in tribute to the executed politicians and the disappeared detainees of the Peñalolén commune located in Santiago de Chile, during the military dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet. The work remembers the disappeared and executed political detainees from the commune of Peñalolén during the military dictatorship. The figures of a man, a woman and a girl represent to a large extent the reality of this commune, where people of both sexes and of all ages died, even very young infants.

Wikipedia: Construyendo la historia con la memoria de nuestros mártires (ES)

The Las Condes Wax Museum is a Chilean public museum that exhibits figures modeled in wax. It was inaugurated on July 23, 2019, becoming the first of its kind in Chile. It is located in Los Dominicos Park in the commune of Las Condes, in Santiago.

Wikipedia: Museo de Cera de Las Condes (ES)

The Votive Temple of Maipú or Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a Catholic church located in the Chilean town of Maipú. The height of this basilica is 300 feet tall. Its construction was ordered by Bernardo O'Higgins in 1818 as an act of thanksgiving to Our Lady of Mount Carmel for the intercession for the victory of the Chilean Army in the Battle of Maipú, where the Independence of Chile was assured. It is called votive because of the vows that O'Higgins made to the Virgin Mary.

Wikipedia: Votive Temple of Maipú (EN)

The Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church located in the Chilean commune of Las Condes, in Santiago. It is the headquarters of the Congregration La Reconciliación, a bilingual religious community belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile (IECLH), one of the two confessions of Lutheranism in the South American country.

Wikipedia: Iglesia Evangélica Luterana El Buen Pastor (Santiago de Chile) (ES), Website

The Paseo Palestina is a pedestrian promenade located in the Chilean commune of Estación Central, specifically at the intersection of Avenida General Velásquez with Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, next to the town hall of that municipality. It was inaugurated in 2009, as a donation from the Palestinian National Authority to the Chilean people, especially to the descendants of Palestinian immigrants residing in the country, for the purpose of the commemorations for the Bicentennial of Chile.

Wikipedia: Paseo Palestina (ES)