THE BEST Sights and Attractions in Santiago

🏛️ Sights and Attractions in Santiago

• Cerro San Cristobal — San Cristóbal Hill is a hill in northern Santiago, Chile. It rises 880 m AMSL and about 300 m above the rest of Santiago; the peak is the third highest point in the city, after Cerro Manquehue and Cerro Renca. Cerro San Cristóbal was named by the Spanish conquistadors for St Chri
• Plaza de Armas — Plaza de Armas is Santiago's main square, surrounded by the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Central Post Office, the Royal Court Palace (Museo Histórico Nacional), and the City Hall, the heart of the colonial city and a gathering place for locals and tourists.
• La Moneda Palace — La Moneda Palace is the seat of the President of Chile, a Neoclassical building from 1805 by Italian architect Joaquín Toesca. Famous for the 1973 military coup, with a changing of the guard and an underground cultural center.
• Metropolitan Cathedral — The Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago on the Plaza de Armas is the seat of the Archbishop of Santiago, a Baroque and Neoclassical building from 1748-1800, with a silver altar, a museum, and the remains of Chile's first cardinal.
• Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino — The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art is an art museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian artworks and artifacts from Central and South America.
• Santa Lucia Hill — Santa Lucía Hill, also known in Mapuche as Huelén Hill, is a 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.
• Barrio Bellavista — is a neighborhood dating from 1900, which lies between the Mapocho River and San Cristóbal Hill in Santiago, Chile, in the communes of Providencia and Recoleta. It is known as Santiago's bohemian quarter, with numerous restaurants, boutiques, avant-garde galleri
• Vega Central — La Vega Central, also known as the Feria Mapocho, is a market located at the far south of Recoleta commune in Santiago de Chile, near the north bank of the Mapocho River. A wide variety of products are sold in its surrounds, principally fresh fruit and vegetables from the Chilean
• Parque Forestal — 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.
• Quinta Normal Park — Quinta Normal Park is an urban park in the city of Santiago, Chile. The park is located in the Commune of Santiago with its namesake commune, Quinta Normal, situated just outside the park across the communal boundary. The park spans 35.5 hectares and is bounded by Matucana Avenue to the east, Portales Avenue to the south and Santo Domingo Street to the north. It is home to several cultural institutions, including the Chilean National Museum of Natural History, and features a railroad museum. The park was founded in 1841, originally intended for greenhouses to cultivate foreign plant species, and has since become a popular space for recreation.