Santiago s Post Office Building

The post office building is a National Monument. Part of our City Tour

National Historical Museum from Santiago

In its 18 permanent exhibition halls, recreates much of the history of Chile

Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art

The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian America was one of the pioneering efforts of Sergio Larraín García-Moreno and the Municipality of Santiago for Latin America as an institution created to guard, to study and disseminate the artistic heritage

Museo de Santiago - Casa Colorada

The Casa Colorada Santiago Museum Founded in 1981, shows the origin and historical development of the city of Santiago

National Museum of Fine Arts

The museum was founded on 18 September 1880, under the name National Museum of Paintings, and is the oldest in South America through its handling of the

Interactive Mirador Museum - MIM

Mirador Interactive Museum (MIM) is an interactive museum with exhibits and learn games that really experiencing rather than just observe.

Audiovisual Interactive Museum

La Casona Barros is one of the last original houses in the neighborhood El Golf that are left standing. It was built by the architect Carlos Cruz Eyzaguirre in French style in the 1940s, and stayed for 20 years to Subercaseux Barros family. Then in the 70

Museum of Memory and Human Rights

Museum of Memory in Santiago is a museum dedicated to the victims of human rights during the military dictatorship

La Chascona, Pablo Neruda s House

Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, began construction in 1953, for Matilde Urrutia, his secret love at the time. n his honor he named it La Chascona

Museum of Fashion

An excellent museum in which the mission is to preserve and display clothes and objects that were used over time, demonstrating that fashion is a true reflection of societies over time.

History of Santiago

More than ten thousand years man hunted mastodons and horses in central Chile. Remains found in Tagua-Tagua, south of Santiago, human activity are hunter-gatherers in a climate and conditions specific to the end of Plestioceno. At that time occupied the drawers Andean glaciers and the sea was several feet below the present level.

On February 12, 1541 Pedro de Valdivia founded the city of Santiago del Nuevo Extremo. Valdivia appoints new city in honor of the revered patron of the Spanish military in its struggle for the reconquest.
Around 1444 the Inca Tupac Yupanqui and later his successor, Huayna Capac the Inca conquests start of Chile, the entire area falling under the influence of the Empire. They built the first buildings of some importance that existed in the area.

In 1552, King Charles V appoints James as a very honorable and loyal city and is also the first city in Canada to receive a coat of arms. The lion appears a sword in a field of silver on blue background surrounded by eight gold scallop shell, symbol of pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela and the knights of the order. Completed the royal shield. This shield is preserved today as a symbol of the Municipality of Santiago, the central district of the city and is also used by other institutions. It must be said that the lions shield and was ported on the flag of the Spanish conquistador motto of the region of the same name in Spain. But in the arms of James the lion is carrying a sword, perhaps as an allegory of Santiago himself.


During the colonial built large complex projects such as the Puente de Cal y Canto and the Mapocho Tacama built in 1767, of which only archaeological remains are preserved. However, despite the destruction, crossing a corner you may suddenly find colonial buildings that still survive in this changing city. Examples include the Red House, built in 1769 by Joseph de la Vega for Don Mateo de Toro y Zambrano, the most prosperous merchant of the time. Oldest and most outstanding colonial architecture is the Church of San Francisco, built between 1586 and 1628 by Fray Antonio and is the most preserved ancient architectural complex in Chile.