13 Sights in Punta Arenas, Chile (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Punta Arenas, Chile! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Punta Arenas. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
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Fuerte Bulnes is a Chilean fort located by the Strait of Magellan, 62 km south of Punta Arenas. It was founded in 1843 on a rocky hill at Punta Santa Ana, and named after President Manuel Bulnes Prieto.
2. Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator, and Catholic. She was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Her image is featured on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote.
3. Nao Victoria Museum
The Nao Victoria Museum is located in Punta Arenas, Chile, and has been open to the public since 1 October 2011. The museum is private, the owner has received the Medal of the President of Chile for his work in promoting national identity during the celebrations for the bicentenary of the independence of the South American country. Spanish Vice Consul in Punta Arenas gave the entrepreneur the prize "Hispanic Identity" for the building of the Nao Victoria Replica.
4. Port Famine
Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, also known as Puerto del Hambre, is a historic settlement site at Buena Bay on the north shore of the Strait of Magellan approximately 58 km (36 mi) south of Punta Arenas in the Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, Patagonia, Chile.
5. Cruz de los Mares
Cape Froward is the southernmost point of mainland South America. It is located in the Magallanes Region of Chile, along the north shore of Magellan Strait, being the southern tip of the Brunswick Peninsula. In January 1587, the English corsair Thomas Cavendish named the place after the region's rough climate.
6. Pontón Muñoz Gamero
The County of Peebles was the world's first four-masted, iron-hulled full-rigged ship. It was built during 1875, by Barclay Curle Shipbuilders in Glasgow, Scotland, for the shipping company R & J Craig of Glasgow. Measuring 81.2 metres long, with a beam of 11.8 metres, a draught of 7.1 metres and a cargo capacity of 1,614 net register tons (NRT), it was a state-of-the-art windjammer when it began its use, for the jute trade between the ports of Dundee and Cardiff in Great Britain and Bombay and Calcutta / Hooghly River in East India. Its rig was 'Scottish style', with royal sails above double top-sails and single topgallants.
7. Faro San Isidro
The Cabo San Isidro Lighthouse or San Isidro Lighthouse is located at the southern end of the Brunswick Peninsula in the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica in Chile, with the Darwin Mountain Range as a background and next to a dense native forest. It was inaugurated in 1904, its structure reaches 7.8 meters in height and has a luminous range of 9 nautical miles.
8. Faro Bahía Félix
The Bahía Félix Lighthouse is a lighthouse belonging to the lighthouse network of Chile. It is located in the Bahía Félix sector of Tamar Island in the Magallanes Region. This inhabited lighthouse is a Historical Monument of the Magallanes Region. The construction of this lighthouse was started by Luis Camuzi and completed by George Slight.
9. Penitenciaría local de Punta Arenas
The local penitentiary of Punta Arenas is a historical monument located in the city of the same name, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region, Chile. Its construction dates back to the period between 1898 and 1906 approximately.
10. Prefectura de Carabineros de Punta Arenas
The Prefecture of Carabineros de Punta Arenas was a historical monument located in the city of the same name, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region, Chile. Its design dates back to 1899, when the architect Antonio Allende presented it to the city council; Its construction dates back to the period between 1904 and 1906 approximately.
11. Catedral de Punta Arenas
The Sacred Heart Cathedral also called Punta Arenas Cathedral and Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, is a religious building of the Catholic Church which has a Renaissance tower that is dedicated to the order of the Salesians. Its construction began on December 28, 1892, on the plans made by the Father of the Salesian order Juan Bernabe. It is located in the city of Punta Arenas in the region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica in the South American country of Chile.
12. Palacio Montes Pello
The Montes Palace is a building located in the center of the city of Punta Arenas, Chile, in the Muñoz Gamero square. Built in 1920, it is the headquarters of the Illustrious Municipality of Punta Arenas, and is part of the city's Typical Urban Zone.
13. Residencia Beaulier
The Beaulier Residence or House of Human Rights is a building located on Cristóbal Colón Avenue, in the city of Punta Arenas, capital of the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region, Chile. Built in 1936 by the architect Antonio Beaulier as its own residence, between 1973 and 1976 it functioned as the regional headquarters of the Central of the Military Intelligence Service (SIM) that occupied it as a detention and torture center. It was declared a national monument of Chile, in the category of historical monument, by Decree No. 95, of April 11, 2016.
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