a tour in Santiago city

If someone who doesn’t know Santiago came here to visit the city, I’d had some places to suggest.

Here’s my perfect tour…

First of all, go to the Pablo Neruda’s Santiago house, named “La Chascona” due to the nickname of the last poet’s wife, Matilde. Chascona, in Chilean Spanish, is a person who has a huge unbrushed hair.

There is a painting of Matilde made by Diego Rivera -a famous Mexican painter- that represents the hidden love that Pablo and Matilde shared. She has two faces, and hidden in her hair the silhouette of the poet face
I chose this place because the house is beautiful and it has a lot of little details that talks you about many parts of Chile and the world, besides he is a very well-know Chilean poet, and is interesting go to see where he lived.

After that you can go take a walk at the Parque Forestal, a great park that is near to the house, a beautiful place to talk and enjoy the sunny days that we have in springtime. Walking in the park you’re going to found the Bellas Artes Museum, you can go visit it and see a permanent collection of Chilean paintings, pay attention on the Claudio Bravo an Roberto Matta’s paintings, my favorites ones.

When you finish the museum tour you can have lunch in one of the coffee places and restaurants on the sector. Later you can take the metro to the La Moneda station; there you can visit the government palace and the great museum under the building. After that you can walk to the Plaza de Armas and see the Cathedral of the city, is the historical part of the visit.