Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Santiago, Chile

The Hidalgo Castle is a building located at the top of Santa Lucía Hill, in the city of Santiago, Chile. It was built in 1816 by order of the governor of Chile during the Reconquest, Casimiro Marcó del Pont, for the defense of the city, with the name of Santa Lucía Battery. The design and engineering works of the fort or castle were under the direction of the Brigadier of the Royal Corps of Engineers Manuel Olaguer Feliú.

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Santa Lucía Hill, also known in Mapuche as Huelén Hill, is a small hill in the centre of Santiago, Chile. It is situated between Alameda del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins in the south, Santa Lucía Street in the west and Victoria Subercaseaux on the east. An adjacent metro station is named after it. The hill has an altitude of 629 m and a height of 69 m over the surrounding area. The hill is the remnant of a volcano 15 million years old.

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The Hermitage of Santa Lucía Hill is a Catholic temple located at the top of the hill, in the center of the city of Santiago, Chile. Inside is the tomb of the mayor of Santiago Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, the main promoter of the transformation of the hill into an urban park, and his family.

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A peace pole（世界平和祈願柱） is a monument that displays the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in the language of the country where it has been placed, and usually 3 to 13 additional translations. The message often is referred to as a peace prayer.

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Francisca Xaviera Eudoxia Rudecinda Carmen de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo, better known as Javiera Carrera, was a Chilean independence activist. Together with her brothers José Miguel, Juan José and Luis, she was one of the leading figures of the early Chilean struggle for independence during the period known as the Patria Vieja. She is credited with having sewn the first national flag of Chile and is considered to be the "Mother of Chile".

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The Iglesia de la Vera Cruz or de la Veracruz is a Catholic church located in Barrio Lastarria in the center of Santiago, Chile.

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The Museum of Visual Arts (MAVI) is located next to the Archaeological Museum of Santiago, in the Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro, in the Lastarria neighborhood of the city of Santiago, Chile.

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Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro is located in Barrio Lastarria, between Plaza Baquedano, Parque Forestal and Cerro Santa Lucía in Santiago, Chile. A popular destination for tourists and locals alike, the area is known for its cultural offerings and hosts a number of cafés, bookstores, museums, galleries, cultural centers, theaters and bars in its surrounds. The plaza itself provides access to a cultural center featuring both a visual arts and archeological museum.

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Arnaldo Tapia Caballero was a Chilean pianist, teacher and diplomat.

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The voluntary firefighter monument is a sculptural steel set located near the Forest Park, in the city of Santiago, Chile. He was commissioned by the Illustrious Municipality of Santiago in 1913 to the sculptor Antonio Coll and Pi, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Santiago Fire Department.

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The Santo Domingo Church is a Dominican church in the historical downtown of Santiago de Chile. It is located at the corner of Santo Domingo Street and 21 de Mayo Street.

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The Church of San Pedro is a temple Catholic street located on Mac-Iver Street, in the center of the city of Santiago, Chile. Designed by the architect Emilio Doyère, and inaugurated in 1896, it is under the administration of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. The church was declared a historical monument by Supreme Decree No. 705 of October 8, 1990.

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Parque Forestal is an urban park in the city of Santiago, Chile. The park was created on reclaimed land from the Mapocho River and is located in the historical downtown of Santiago, west of Plaza Baquedano and east of Estación Mapocho. It is bordered on the north by Santa María Avenue, on the south by Merced Street and Ismael Valdés Vergara Street. At its eastern end, the park becomes Balmaceda Park, forming an almost unbroken stretch of greenery along the Mapocho River.

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The Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art is located in Santiago, Chile. It is one of the city's major museums, created in 1947, and is run by the University of Chile Faculty of Arts. Since 2005, the museum has had two separate sites: MAC Parque Forestal and MAC Quinta Normal Park.

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The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art. Established in 1880, the organization is managed by the Artistic Union.

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El Castillo Forestal, also known as El Castillito, is a building built at the beginning of the twentieth century and located in the northwest corner of Parque Forestal, in front of the National Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Santiago de Chile. Today, the site is home to the café-restaurant Brasserie du Château Forestal, and the Toy Museum.

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The Monument to Gloria or also known as the Monument of the French Colony to the Centenary of the Independence of Chile, is a memorial located in the Forestry Park, in Lastarria Barrio de Santiago, Chile, opposite the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile. It was designed in conjunction with Chilean sculptor Guillermo Córdova and French architect Henri Grossin. Inaugurated in 1910, it was donated by the French community in Chile on the occasion of the celebrations of the country's Centenary.

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The Monument to the Writers of Independence, located in the Forest Park of Santiago, the capital of Chile, is a marble obelisk that presents, on each of the faces of its pedestal, a bronze medallion in relief in homage to four writers of the independence of Chile: José Miguel Infante, Manuel José Gandarillas, Manuel de Salas and Camilo Henríquez.

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The German Fountain of Santiago is a monumental fountain located in the Forest Park of the Chilean capital, at the height of Plaza Baquedano.

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The Professor César Leyton Caravagno Museum of Chemistry and Pharmacy was created in 1951 at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Chile. At that time he sought to portray the aesthetics of the old apothecaries, then this objective was expanded to preserve the historical legacy of the development of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences. It is the only museum in Chile dedicated to the history of Pharmacy and is located at 50 Merced Street in Santiago, in a building that it shares with the College of Chemists-Pharmacists of Chile.

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The Vicente Huidobro Bridge is a metal lattice bridge that crosses the Mapocho River in the city of Santiago de Chile. It is located on the border where the communes of Santiago and Recoleta adjoin, next to the Forest Park; between the Purisima and Pío Nono bridges.

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José Manuel Emiliano Balmaceda Fernández served as the 10th President of Chile from September 18, 1886, to August 29, 1891. Balmaceda was part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile. While he was president, his political disagreements with the Chilean congress led to the 1891 Chilean Civil War, following which he shot and killed himself.

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The Museo de los Tajamares is a Chilean museum, located in Balmaceda Park, in the commune of Providencia, Santiago, on the south bank of the Mapocho River. It opened in 1980 but has been closed to the public since 2003. The Municipality of Providencia has been seeking to reopen its doors since 2010, however the museum is still closed.

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The Teatro Universidad de Chile, formerly the Baquedano Theater, is a theater located on the ground floor of one of the Turri Towers, on the south side of Baquedano Square. It hosts the shows of the artistic companies of that house of studies, namely the National Symphony Orchestra, the National Ballet (Banch), the Camerata Vocal and the Symphonic Choir. When the great cultural center that the University of Chile is building at 20 Vicuña Mackenna Avenue is completed, it will become, according to plans, the headquarters of the Banch.

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Plaza Baquedano, commonly known as Plaza Italia, is a major landmark in Santiago, Chile.

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José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain. He was also an important figure in Latin American literature. He was very politically active and is considered an important philosopher and political theorist. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol of Cuba's bid for independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence". From adolescence on, he dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty, political independence for Cuba, and intellectual independence for all Spanish Americans; his death was used as a cry for Cuban independence from Spain by both the Cuban revolutionaries and those Cubans previously reluctant to start a revolt.

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Torre Telefónica Chile formerly known as Edificio CTC is a high-rise office building in the Providencia district of Santiago, Chile. Built between 1993 and 1996, the tower stands at 143 m (469 ft) tall with 34 floors and is the current 3rd tallest building in Chile.

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Manuel Xavier Rodríguez Erdoíza was a Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Rodríguez was of Basque descent.

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The Writer's House was built as a home in 1927 by the architect Julio Machicao; since 1962 it has belonged to the Society of Writers of Chile, and hence its current name. It was declared a Historical Monument in 2009. It is located at Almirante Simpson 7, a street that runs between Vicuña Mackenna Avenue (W) and Bustamante Park, in Santiago.

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Museo Nacional Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna is a Chilean museum located in the commune of Providencia, Santiago, dedicated to disseminating the life and work of the Chilean politician Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, and the history of the country during the nineteenth century.

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The church of San Francisco de Borja, former chapel or church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of the San Borja Hospital, is a neo-Gothic Catholic temple of 1876, which is intended for the religious service of the Carabineros de Chile. It is located at 160 Carabineros Street, behind the Gloria y Victoria monument and the Alameda Bernardo O'Higgins at number 239.

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Daniel Mauricio Zamudio Vera was a Chilean man whose murder in 2012 became a symbol against homophobic violence in Chile. Zamudio, who identified as gay, was beaten and tortured for several hours in San Borja Park in downtown Santiago on March 2, 2012, by four attackers linked to a neo-Nazi gang. His death and the subsequent media attention helped accelerate legislation against discrimination and opened doors to greater acceptance and tolerance of differences in the conservative country.

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Gloria y Victoria is the name given to the memorial to the martyrs of the Carabineros de Chile who fell in the line of duty. Located at 200 Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, in Santiago, the country's capital, it is made of concrete with stone slab cladding and has a height of 23 m. This work was made by the Chilean sculptor Héctor Román Latorre.

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The Violeta Parra Museum is an art museum and cultural center located in the commune and city of Santiago, Chile. Inaugurated on October 4, 2015, it seeks to preserve and promote the work of Chilean artist Violeta Parra.

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The Church of the Assumption —officially called La Asunción— was a historic Catholic temple located on Vicuña Mackenna Avenue with Barón Pierre De Coubertin Street, in the municipality of Santiago, in the city of the same name. This church was inaugurated in 1876, it was destroyed in 2020 due to an arson attack that occurred during the first anniversary of the social outbreak in Chile.

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The house located at Av. Vicuña Mackenna No 84, known as Casa de Las Gárgolas, is a residential property type "chalet", designed by the architect Eduardo Costabal Zegers, and is located on the Picturesque Viña del Mar Street, in the commune of Providencia, Province of Santiago, Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile. Built in 1929, it was declared a Historical Monument by Exempt Decree No. 858 of 2001 and is currently the headquarters of the Council of National Monuments of Chile.

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Bustamante Park is an urban park in Providencia, Santiago de Chile. It is built on the former site of Pirque railroad station and adjacent classification yard. The park is bounded by Providencia Avenue on the north, just south of Plaza Baquedano, and Marín Street on the south.

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