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1. Cerro San Cristóbal (Parque Metropolitano)

Hill park and viewpointBellavista / Providencia

Santiago's largest public park covers the slopes of San Cristóbal hill, with a 1925 funicular, a cable car, gardens, pools and a giant Virgin statue at the top.

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2. Palacio de La Moneda

Presidential palaceSantiago Centro

Chile's neoclassical presidential palace, built as the colonial mint and bombed in the 1973 coup, with a changing of the guard and a cultural centre beneath its southern square.

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3. Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

Pre-Columbian art museumSantiago Centro

A museum of pre-Columbian art in the 1807 Royal Customs House, a block from the Plaza de Armas, covering some 10,000 years and around 100 American cultures.

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4. Plaza de Armas

Historic main squareSantiago Centro

Santiago's founding square, laid out in 1541, framed by the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Central Post Office, the National History Museum and the city hall.

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5. Cerro Santa Lucía

Historic hill parkSantiago Centro / Lastarria

A small rocky hill in the city centre where Santiago's story began, turned into a park of terraces, fountains, stairways and viewpoints in the 1870s.

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6. Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos

History and human rights museumBarrio Yungay

Opened in 2010, this museum opposite Quinta Normal metro documents the human rights violations committed in Chile under the 1973 to 1990 military dictatorship.

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7. Catedral Metropolitana de Santiago

CathedralSantiago Centro

The neoclassical cathedral on the Plaza de Armas, begun in 1748 and completed in 1906, with three naves, a 1754 Jesuit organ and the crypt of Santiago's archbishops.

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8. La Chascona

Writer's house museumBellavista

Pablo Neruda's Santiago house, begun in 1953 for Matilde Urrutia on the slopes of San Cristóbal, now a museum and the seat of the Pablo Neruda Foundation.

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9. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Fine art museumParque Forestal / Lastarria

Chile's national fine art museum, free to enter, in a 1910 palace modelled on the Petit Palais in Paris, at the edge of Parque Forestal.

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10. Sky Costanera

Observation deckProvidencia

The observation deck on floors 61 and 62 of the Gran Torre Santiago, South America's tallest building, with 360-degree views at 300 metres.

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