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Feria Fluvial
A lively riverside market south of the Valdivia bridge, where vendors sell fresh fish, meat and produce. Waterfront sea lions have discovered the Promised Land here – a place where they can float around all day and let tourists and fishmongers throw them scraps from the daily catch
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Ahu Akivi
Unusual for its inland location, Ahu Akivi, restored in 1960, sports seven restored moai . They are the only ones that face towards the sea, but, like all moai, they overlook the site of a village, traces of which can still be seen. The site has proved to have astronomical signific
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Parque Nacional Yendegaia
Serene glacier-rimmed bays and native Fuegian forest comprise this 1500-sq-km national park, Chiles newest, over a third of which was donated in 2014 by the Yendegaia Foundation. Located in the Cordillera Darwin, it is a strategic wildlife corridor between Argentinas Parque Naciona
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Catedral Metropolitana
Overlooking the Plaza de Armas is the neoclassical Catedral Metropolitana, built between 1748 and 1800. Bishops celebrating mass on the lavish main altar may feel uneasy: beneath them is the crypt where their predecessors are buried. The churchs exterior was undergoing renovations
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Museo del Recuerdo
Pioneer days are made real again at the Patagonian Institute’s Museo del Recuerdo, part of the Universidad de Magallanes. On display are a collection of antique farm and industrial machinery, a typical pioneer house and shearing shed, and a wooden-wheeled shepherds’ trailer. The li
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Barrio París
This pocket-sized neighborhood developed on the grounds of the Franciscan convent of Iglesia de San Francisco and is made up of two intersecting cobble-stone streets, París and Londres, which are lined by graceful European-style townhouses built in the 1920s. Look for the memorial
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Planta Pisco Capel
A 20-minute walk from town, here you can take a 45-minute bilingual tour of the facilities, which includes an on-site museum and a few skimpy samples (CH$10,000 gets you the premium tour, with top-shelf tastings). Capel distills pisco at this facility and has its only bottling plan
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Costanera Center
Financial woes have halted construction several times on this ambitious ongoing project slated to be fully operational in 2015. The four skyscrapers that make up the Costanera Center include Gran Torre Santiago , the tallest building in South America (300m). The towers contain luxu
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Viña Aquitania
Set at the foot of the Andes is Santiagos most interesting winery. Aquitania works with tiny quantities and sky-high quality. From Grecia metro station (Línea 4), take bus D07 south from bus stop 6 and get off at the intersection of Av Los Presidentes and Consistorial (you need a
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Reserva Nacional Altos de Lircay
The great range of challenging hikes at this well-organized, easily accessible national park will leave you as short of breath as the fabulous views. Its 121 sq km are made up of a mix high-Andean steppes, lagoons and deciduous forest that turns a glorious gold and red in the fall.
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Valdivia’s modern art museum sits alongside the archaeological museum and is built atop the foundations of the former Cervecería Anwandter, the one-time brewery that tumbled during the 1960 earthquake. The museum has fine views across the river to the city.
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Fundo Los Nichos
An artisanal pisquera established in 1868, located 3km south of Pisco Elqui, Fundo Los Nichos still produces pisco the old-fashioned way. Its four guided tours (CH$1000; in Spanish only; at 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 4:30pm and 5:30pm daily in summer) include a visit to the facilities and a
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Iglesia San Pedro
The sugar-white Iglesia San Pedro is a delightful little colonial church built with indigenous or artisanal materials – chunky adobe walls and roof, a ceiling made from cardón (cactus wood) resembling shriveled tire tracks and, in lieu of nails, hefty leather straps. The church dat
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Humberstone
The influence and wealth of the nitrate boom whisper through the deserted ghost town of Humberstone. Established in 1872, this mining town once fizzed with an energy, culture and ingenuity that peaked in the 1940s. However, the development of synthetic nitrates forced the closure o
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Eberhard Ranch
Surrounded by tranquil fjords and looming mountains, the original homestead and estancia (estate) in the region, Eberhard Ranch, is impossibly scenic and gives a taste of the workaday area. You can see the gauchos as they work - its not a tourist show, but real work, which includes
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Viña Almaviva
This boutique vineyard runs in partnership with Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Concha y Torro. High-end tastings are available by reservation only. Bus 207 from Estación Mapocho runs past the entrance, about 1km from the winery building. Its the more sophisticated sister of Viña
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Museo Gabriela Mistral
The towns landmark Museo Gabriela Mistral, between Riquelme and Baquedano, is a tangible eulogy to one of Chiles most famous literary figures. Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in 1889 in Vicuña. The museum charts her life (in Spanish only), from a replica of her adob
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Observatorio Turístico Collowara
This shiny new observatory is built for tourists; no serious interstellar research is conducted here, but the facility boasts a 40cm telescope for stargazing. Book at the ticket office in nearby Andacollo, and inquire there about transportation to the hilltop observatory. Since the
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Museo de Volcanes
The stone-domed Museo de Volcanes is Sur Chicos most impressive archeological museum, covering native Chilean indigenous cultures, including one of the best Mapuche ornament collections in existence, an impressive lantern, padlock and iron collection, a re-creation of the 2010 Copi
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Barrio Histórico
British flavor prevails in the 19th-century Barrio Histórico, between the plaza and the old port, where handsome Victorian and Georgian buildings still stand. On Bolívar, the bottle-green-colored train station (1887) is the restored terminus of the Antofagasta–La Paz railway. Its c
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