17 Sights in Valdivia, Chile (with Map and Images)
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Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served as lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro in Peru, acting as his second in command.
Zone:south The Torreón Los Canelos or Torreón de Cantarranas is a historical monument located in the city of Valdivia, Los Ríos Region, Chile. It was designed in 1678 by the engineer Juan Garland as part of a network of defense infrastructure to counteract the attack of indigenous people in Valdivia; and was executed by the Governor don Joaquín de Espinoza y Dávalos in 1774.
3. Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.
4. Arturo Prat
Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón was a Chilean Navy officer and lawyer. He was killed in the Battle of Iquique, during the War of the Pacific. During his career, Prat had taken part in several naval engagements, including battles at Papudo (1865), and at the Abtao (1866). Following his death, his name became a rallying cry for Chilean forces, and Arturo Prat has since been considered a national hero.
5. Plaza Simón Bolívar
The Plaza Simón Bolívar is located in the Chilean city of Valdivia, capital of the Los Ríos Region. It is located near the Calle-Calle bridge, at the northern entrance to the city, between Avenida Ramón Picarte to the north, and Errázuriz to the south. It is considered one of the historic squares of the city.
6. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo or MAC is a modern art museum in Valdivia run by Universidad Austral de Chile. It was founded in 1994 by the then rector of Universidad Austral Manfred Max-Neef and the artist Hernán Miranda. Artists that have had exhibitions at MAC include: Nicanor Parra and Juan Francisco Salazar. MAC was built in the same site of the old Anwandter Brewery that collapsed during the 1960 Valdivia earthquake.
7. Museo de las Telecomunicaciones
The Museum of Telecommunications is a thematic museum located in the city of Valdivia, Los Ríos Region, Chile. Its purpose is to disseminate information on the progress and history of telecommunication methods used nationally and worldwide, this being the first of its kind in the country. It was inaugurated on May 18, 2022.
8. Torreón del Barro
The Torreón Picarte or Torreón del Barro is a historical monument located in the city of Valdivia, Los Ríos Region, Chile.Se is located at 1244 Ramón Picarte Street, one of the old accesses to the city —the road to Los Llanos— and was designed next to the Torreón Los Canelos in 1768 by the engineer Juan Garland; built under the government of Joaquín de Espinoza y Dávalos in 1774.
9. Memorial a Rector Fundador
Eduardo Morales Miranda was one of the founders of Universidad Austral de Chile, and its first rector. He was born to Abdón Morales and Amelia Miranda, who lived in Constitución, Maule Region, Chile. Morales went to high school in Liceo Manuel Blanco Encalada in Talca, and went on later to study medicine in Universidad de Chile, where he became a physician. In 1954 he was elected President of the Directory of Members of the newly created Universidad Austral de Chile. He was elected rector of the university the same year and stayed in that position until 1961 when he renounced. He turned 100 in November 2010.
10. Museo Mauricio van de Maele (Casa Anwandter)
Museo Histórico y Antropológico Maurice van de Maele or is an anthropology and history museum in Valdivia run by Universidad Austral de Chile. The exhibitions at the museum deals with Mapuche and Huilliche culture and the German colonization of southern Chile. The museums exhibits collections of archaeological artifacts and also tools, toys, jewelry, textiles, ceramics and photo collection. The museum is named after Maurice van de Maele a Belgian amateur journalist, archaeologist and anthropologist who worked in Universidad Austral.
Wikipedia: Museo Histórico y Antropológico Maurice van de Maele (EN)
11. Faro Morro Niebla
The Morro Niebla Lighthouse, also known as the Niebla Lighthouse and the Fuerte Niebla Lighthouse is a lighthouse belonging to the lighthouse network of Chile. It is located in the dependencies of the Castillo de Niebla, in the Los Ríos Region. Above the door of the lighthouse appears the numeral 1900, the year in which the structure was built by Lever Murphy and Co. and assembled by engineers of the Chilean Navy.
12. Castillo de San Pedro de Alcántara
The Castle of San Pedro de Alcántara de Mancera or simply Castillo de Mancera is a castle located in the town of Mancera Island, Los Ríos Region, Chile. It was the most important castle in the system of forts and castles of Valdivia. This property was part of a network of defense infrastructure built in Valdivia in order to counteract the attack of indigenous people, pirates, corsairs and foreign powers; the plans were made by Constantino Vasconcelos, chief engineer of the navy, while its construction dates back to the period between 1675 and 1680.
Wikipedia: Castillo de San Pedro de Alcántara de Mancera (ES)
13. Centro Cultural Casa Prochelle I
The Prochelle I and II Houses are two old mansions located on Teja Island next to the Chilean city of Valdivia, in the homonymous province of the Los Ríos Region. Both, together with the Prochelle Park adjacent to them, have been considered since 1985 Historical Monument of Chile.
14. Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi
Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi is a museum in Valdivia run by Austral University of Chile. The exhibitions at the museum deals with the exploration of southern Chile, specially those made by the German naturalist Rodolfo Amando Philippi.
Wikipedia: Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi (EN)
15. Plaza de la República
The Plaza de la República is the official name given to the Plaza de Armas in the Chilean city of Valdivia, capital of the Los Ríos Region, in the south of the country. It is located in the urban center of the city, a few streets from the banks of the Calle-Calle River. It has the particularity of being the only bullring in Chile that bears this name.
16. Catedral de Valdivia
The Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral Also Valdivia Cathedral Is the main Catholic church of the Valdivia diocese, built in the center of the homonymous city of Valdivia, in the South American country of Chile.
17. Castillo de la Pura y Limpia Concepción de Monfort de Lemus
The Castillo de Niebla, originally named in honor of the viceroy of Peru, the X Count of Lemos, as Castillo de la Pura y Limpia Concepción de Monforte de Lemos, also popularly known as Fuerte de Niebla, is a fortification located in the town of Niebla, Valdivia, Chile. It is part of the fortified system built from the seventeenth century at the mouth of the Valdivia River by the Spanish conquistadors.
Wikipedia: Castillo de la Pura y Limpia Concepción de Monfort de Lemus (ES)
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