Santiago!

I have lived always in Santiago, if well I was born at hospital from Quinta Normal (I don’t remember specifically what) I never lived in that commune. First I lived in La Granja in my grandmother’s house until we moved to Puente Alto when I was six years old where we live at present.





I have to admit than don’t know many places of Santiago, because before than know a new one I prefer my favorites places as: Forestall park (in the picture), Bellas Artes Museum, Quinta Normal park, Santa Lucia hill, San Cristobal hill. Also I like not specifics places with this I mean I like so much just walking freely on Alameda and Providencia Avenue.

These places are my favorites because I feel so relax when I stay in some of them, I just contemplating the people pass, talking, buying, etc. I like that movement, that life in Santiago center (around Alameda Avenue). Whereas in Providence Av. I enjoy the beauty of this builds and why don’t say it, for its cleanliness.

If a tourist ask me What can I do in Santiago? or What place do you recommend to visit? I answer, It depends from your likes, You should know that Santiago It’s so diversity. My battery of places than I recommend you for knowing are:

1. Matucana 100, always there are arts exhibitions or plays of theatre. And it is near from the next place.

2. Quinta Normal park, it is an enormous and beauty park. You tourist could see a lot of Chileans families share there. And visit our National Museum of Natural History and Balmaceda 1215 a culture and artistic center where the activities and exhibitions are did by youngs.

3. If you want hear new chilean music you can go to SCD (I suggest than you prefer which is in Bellavista, thus after the concert you could pass a good time in some pub of the neighborhood). Or also you can go to Sala Master La Batuta, or my favorite pub: Clandestino.

4. If you (my dear tourist) prefer to dance, you can’t miss Papagallo the best place for dancing salsa. It is in Alameda Av.

5. If you are interest in the history of Chile, you must to visit La Moneda and the Museum of the Memory. In the first place you see the where the democracy was brutally attacked (even the marks of pulls is those walls) and in the Museum of the Memory you can know what happened before, duering and after that sad episode our history.

Finally for lunching you must to go to Mercado Central (as the tourist in the picture), there exist a lot of dishes with a incredible variety of marine Chilean products.