Such a country is rich in material and spiritual resources and attracts many tourists from all over the world every year. The most famous scenic spots here are Easter Island and San Diego. So are there any other attractions besides these?
Then, Bian Xiao will give you a good introduction about the interesting attractions in Chile!
Santiago, 1
The fourth largest city in Chile is located in the central part of Chile, with mapocho river in front, Andes in the east and Puerto Valparaiso about 185km in the west. Area 13308 square kilometers, 600 meters above sea level. Summer is dry and mild, and winter is cool, rainy and foggy.
With a population of 6.06 million (2002), it was founded in 154 1. 18 18 became the capital after the Battle of Mapo (the decisive battle in the Chilean War of Independence).
/kloc-it developed rapidly after the discovery of silver deposits in the 0/9th century. Since then, it has been repeatedly damaged by natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods, and historical buildings have disappeared. Today, San Diego has become a modern city.
The city is beautiful and colorful. Palm trees dance all year round. Mount Saint Lucia is 230 meters high and is located near the city center. It is a famous scenic spot. In the northeast corner of the city, there is a St. Chris Tobol Mountain at an altitude of 1000m, and a huge marble statue of the Virgin Mary stands on the top of the mountain, which is a great local scenic spot.
Ohiggins Avenue, the main street in San Diego, is 3 kilometers long and 100 meters wide, running through the city. There are boulevards on both sides, and there is a fountain and a vivid commemorative bronze statue at intervals. There is Jiefang Square at the west end of the street, Constitution Square nearby and Bagnaud Square at the east end of the street.
There is an armed forces square in the city center. There are Catholic churches, main churches, post offices and town halls in urban and suburban areas; There are ancient Chilean universities, Catholic universities, national colleges, the largest library in South America (with a collection of 6.5438+0.2 million volumes), history museums, national art galleries, parks, zoos and historical sites.
Nearly 54% of the country's industries are concentrated here. The suburbs are irrigated by water from the Andes and agriculture is developed. It is also the land and air transportation center of the country.
2. Weapons Square
Arms Square in Santiago, the capital of Chile, is also transliterated as Armas Square, which represents the religious, political, economic and cultural center of Chile, is the soul and core of Santiago, and is a tourist attraction that no foreign tourist can ignore.
Pedro is standing in the middle of the square? De? The bronze statue of valdivia was a gift from the Spanish to the Chilean government in 1960 to celebrate Chile's independence in 150.
On the west side of the square is the largest and most magnificent cathedral in Chile. On the north side, there are the State Post Office, the History Museum and the city government of San Diego, which are the representative buildings of San Diego.
The city government of San Diego used to be a city hall and a prison during the construction of San Diego. /kloc-was transformed into neoclassical style in the second half of the 8th century, and189/kloc-0 was destroyed by fire in. 1892 to 1895 original site reconstruction. Since then, it has become the seat of the city government of San Diego for the first time.
The Central Post Office in San Diego was originally built for Pedro, the Spanish conqueror, in his first residence in San Diego. De? Private residence in valdivia. 1882 by architect Richard? Brown (Ricardo
Brown) was converted into a neoclassical building-the predecessor of the Central Post Office Building.
There are often songs and dances, music and talk shows by folk artists in the square, which is very lively.
3. San Diego Cathedral
Santiago Cathedral is the cathedral in Santiago, the capital of Chile, and one of the most important centers of religious activities in Chile. It is located in the historical center of San Diego, facing the weapons square in the city center, next to the palace of the Archbishop of San Diego. The cathedral was listed as the historical and cultural architectural heritage of Chile on 195 1.
The cathedral was built in 1748 and completed in 1800. 1780, the bishop at that time recommended the Roman architect Joaquin to the Spanish royal family. In Tuscany, the facades of cathedrals and chapels were renovated, and the churches were endowed with neoclassical style.
The two bell towers were completed at the end of 1800 one year after his death, which made the cathedral look like today. There are three arched corridors in the church, each of which is more than 90 meters long. The stone fence in the church is very beautiful, especially the roof.
San Francisco? Shaulio's wooden statue and17th century silver lamp weighing more than 20 kilograms are worth seeing. The picture of the last supper in the holy land is also worth seeing. The remains of successive archbishops in Chile are kept in the cathedral.
To the south of the cathedral is the cathedral museum. * * * There are three exhibition halls, displaying sacred objects and religious paintings.
4. National Museum of Natural History in Chile
As a must-see spot for many tourists to visit Santiago, the capital of Chile, the National Museum of Natural History of Chile is an important window to understand the origin of Americans, including Chileans, the evolution history of Chilean animals and plants and the formation history of mining resources.
The National Museum of Natural History of Chile, founded in September 1830, is one of the oldest museums in South America.
At that time, the Chilean government wanted to sort out the main history of animal and plant evolution and mining development in China, so it set up the Natural History Committee and hired the French naturalist Claude? Guy is in charge of planning and implementation.
The current building of the museum was built in 1875, when the Chilean government specially hired the famous French architect Paul? Latour design and construction company.
1876, the museum moved into this neoclassical style building, and the museum set up a research area, a maintenance area, an education area and a design area, specializing in the research and popularization of Chilean natural history.
At present, the museum displays important collections of anthropology, botany, zoology, mineralogy and paleontology, with two permanent exhibition areas 12: Chilean biogeography, terrestrial ecosystem, central exhibition hall17m blue whale bones, minerals, insects, mollusks,
Mesozoic vertebrates, Chilean wood, Chilean archaeology, Juan? Fernandez islands, human culture and the application of copper.
5. Former Columbus Museum of Art
The former Columbus Museum of Art is located in Santiago, Chile. Established in 198 1 12. This is a museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian art and cultural relics in Central and South America.
With the support of the municipal government of San Diego, the museum is owned by Chilean architect and antique collector Sergio? Laraine? Garcia Moreno (Sergio
Lara in Garcia-Moreno).
In the past 50 years, he has collected many pre-Columbian ancient cultural relics, which constitute the collection of the museum at the beginning of its establishment.
The collections in the museum mainly come from pre-Columbian cultural areas such as Central America, Esmo-Colombia, Pan-Caribbean, Amazon Rainforest and Andes, and the collection spans 10,000 years.
The collection of the museum is mainly divided into four areas. The first is Central America, where there are statues of Sipetotik, incense burners in Tetivakan and Mayan reliefs. Followed by the central region, there are pottery made in valdivia and gold products made in Veragua and Dickis.
Third, the Central Andean Exhibition Area, mainly some masks and bronzes, the most representative of which is a painting from Chawen civilization with a history of 3,000 years.
The last one is the exhibition area of South Andes, where the collections are mainly modern Chilean and Argentine objects, and its exhibits include ceramic Weng of Aguada culture, snuff bottles and plates of San Pedro culture and other cultural relics.
6. San Francisco Colonial Museum
San Francisco Colonial Museum is located in the monastery next to San Francisco Cathedral, the oldest church in Santiago, Chile. It is located on ohiggins Avenue in downtown San Diego. The cathedral and its adjacent monastery are the oldest colonial buildings in Chile.
At the beginning of the 20th century, part of the monastery was sold and a community center was rebuilt. The rest became the site of the colonial museum.
This is a museum dedicated to the history, culture and religious beliefs of San Diego. The museum aims to explore the colonial era in Chile and South America by collecting paintings, sculptures, furniture and other objects, many of which are related to religion. These exhibits were made in Peru, the former colonial capital.
It is worth mentioning that the core collection in the museum is the genealogy of Franciscans, which is a super-large religious genealogy with 644 mini-portraits, and it is worth going in and watching carefully.
In addition, the museum should display the instruments of torture used in flogging, the collection of Dr. San Francisco, that is, 54 oil paintings by Cuzco. This is the most precious colonial art collection in Chile and the most complete art collection in South America.
7. Seville Copper City
Seville copper mine town is located 85 kilometers south of Santiago, the capital of Chile, in the extreme climate environment with an altitude of 2000 meters in the Andes. Seville Copper Town was founded in the early 20th century by Braden Copper Company in El Teniente.
Teniente) workshop for the largest underground copper miners.
This small town was born from the integration of local labor force and resources of industrialized countries, as well as the exploitation and smelting of high-value natural resources. It is an outstanding example of enterprise living quarters in remote areas of the world.
At its peak, Seville Copper Town had 65,438+05,000 residents, but most of the town was abandoned in 1970s. The town is built along the huge central staircase rising from the railway station, and the terrain is steep, which is impossible for wheeled vehicles to reach.
There are irregular square areas along the road, ornamental trees and plants, which constitute the main public activity area or square in the town. Not far from the central staircase, the path around the mountain leads to the smaller square and the secondary staircase connecting the other areas of the town.
The buildings along the street are made of logs and are usually painted bright green, red and blue. These houses are all designed by the United States, and most of them are American19th century style buildings, but other buildings, such as technical schools, are the products of modernist inspiration.
Seville copper mine city is the only large-scale industrial mining settlement built in the mountainous area for annual use in the 20th century.
8. Magic Mountain Hotel
The magic mountain hotel is located in a private huilohuil biological reserve in the river area of Chile.
Reserve), the whole hotel is built on the mountain, and the appearance of the hotel is more like a medieval ancient tower.
This shape imitates the shape of a volcano. The surface of the stone is covered with moss and vines, which blend in with the surrounding forests, making people feel like they are in a real volcano, which can satisfy everyone's fairy tales and magical travel dreams.
The device at the top of the hotel can spray a lot of water, flowing through every window like a waterfall, and sometimes it is as trance as "water curtain cave".
In front of the Magic Mountain Hotel, you can see antique doors and windows and a rickety wooden suspension bridge. The entrance of the hotel is connected with this suspension bridge, so you can enjoy the wonderful feeling of walking at the end of the tree when you walk. Guests walk through the suspension bridge and enter the hotel.
However, it looks like an old hotel, but when you walk into it, you will find it is quite luxurious.
The Magic Mountain Hotel has 65,438+03 rooms with separate bathrooms, in addition to 65,438+065,438+0 cabins, each of which can accommodate 4 to 6 people. Each room overlooks dense forests and various wild animals, including toucans, green iguanas, cougars and lizards.
If you live in that 13 room with a big bathroom, you can lie in the bathtub filled with hot water from the novel "Tree Trunk".
While enjoying the wine, you can also enjoy the beautiful tropical rain forest scenery through the window of your room. That feeling is likely to be the most unforgettable memory in your life.
9. Negra Island House
Negra Island House is located on Negra Island in Valparaiso, Chile, 85km south of Valparaiso and110km west of Santiago.
This strange house is a contemporary Chilean poet-Pablo? Nie Luda (1July 90412-1September 23, 973), one of the three major residences in Chile, is also Nie Luda's favorite residence, which is exciting for the imagination, whimsy and emotion of Nie Luda, the Nobel Prize in Literature winner of197/kloc-0.
In the house on Negra Island, Nie Luda and his third wife, Mathilde? Urrutia (mathilde)
Urrutia) spent a lot of wonderful time here, from 1939 to 1973.
Nie Luda loves the sea and everything on the sea, so this house is built like a ship, with a low ceiling, creaking wooden floors and narrow passages.
He is also an enthusiastic collector, and each room has a collection of different bottles, bows, maps, navigation instruments and a series of impressive shells. Nie Luda and Mathilde? Urrutia's grave is here, too.
Today, the house on Negra Island is a museum, which was built by Pablo? Managed and operated by the Nie Luda Foundation, it is a popular tourist attraction. Every year, on the occasion of Nie Luda's birthday-12 July, poetry reading, concerts and other activities will be held in the houses of Negra Island and the surrounding beaches.
10, Chasco Na Museum
Chasco Na Museum is a contemporary Chilean poet-Pablo? One of the many houses in Nie Luda (1904 July12-1973 September 23rd).
Nie Luda's original name was Neftali? Ricardo? Reyes? Basor Tuo (Neftali
RicardoReyesBasoalto), a famous Chilean poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Prize in 197 1 year.
It is said that the house was named Chasco Na because of the hair of Nie Luda's lover and his third wife. In the local language, this word means "disheveled".
The house is located on the hillside of San Cristobal Mountain, which is unique and beautiful. It was built by the Spanish Germans in 1953. Rodriguez? Arias designed it.
Now, after being converted into a museum, there are many other collections here, such as a gallery with paintings by Chilean and foreign artists, African wood carvings, furniture designed by the famous Italian designer -Funattice and other items.
Of course, the original ceramics and tableware of Nie Luda Restaurant are still preserved here.
There are so many beautiful scenic spots in Chile. This time we don't just know about San Diego and Easter Island. If you have time to come here, you must see these scenic spots!