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Casa Braun
Facing the Plaza Muñoz Gamero’s north side is the Club de la Unión, which houses the former Palacio Sara Braun, now known as the Casa Braun-Menéndez.
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Museo Entomológico y de Historia Natural
Crawling with color and antennae, this museum specializes in insects and kaleidoscopic butterflies, but also has fossils, stuffed birds and invertebrates.
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Calluqueo Glacier
This glacier descending from the southeast flanks of Mt. San Lorenzo has only recently become a tourist attraction. It requires boat access and a guide.
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Caleta Hanga Piko & Ahu Riata
Easily overlooked by visitors, the little Caleta Hanga Piko is used by local fishers. Facing the caleta, the restored Ahu Riata supports a solitary moai .
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Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón
The imposing and colorful 1915 Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón, overlooking downtown from a promontory, is based on the Marienkirche of the Black Forest, Germany.
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Yelcho
Near the entrance to the military quarters is the original bow of the ship that rescued Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition from Elephant Island in 1916.
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Aldea Intercultural Trawupeyüm
A sparse but excellent museum of Mapuche culture housed in a modern interpretation of a mountain ruka, a traditional circular Mapuche dwelling oriented to the east.
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Ascensor Concepción
The citys oldest elevator, Ascensor Concepción takes you to Paseo Gervasoni, at the lower end of Cerro Concepción. Built in 1883, it originally ran on steam power.
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Plaza Carlos Condell
This pretty plaza-cum-playground presides over the town center. Its highlight is the chocolate-and-cream 19th-century Iglesia San Vicente (1862) and its Gothic tower.
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Teatro Municipal
A once-lavish, now crumbling theater with a broad stage, opera-style boxes and peeling murals of cherubim on the ceiling. Ask for the key at the library next door.
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Reserva Nacional Los Flamencos
This sprawling reserve encompasses seven geographically distinct sectors south, east and west of San Pedro de Atacama, and encloses many of the areas top attractions.
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Muelle Pesquero
Down by the seafront, Calderas colorful fishing jetty teems with hungry pelicans, colorful little boats and knife-wielding señoras busily gutting and frying the days catch.
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Centro Cultural Augustín Ross
This three-story cultural center is housed in a gorgeous building that used to be the towns casino. Rotating art exhibits make for a welcomed break from beach life and bonfires.
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Parque Saval
Parque Saval on Isla Teja has a riverside beach and a pleasant trail that follows the shoreline of Laguna de los Lotos, covered with lily pads. Its a good place for birdwatching.
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Museum
Gabriela Mistral received her primary schooling at the Casa Escuela y el Correo, where there is a humble museum dedicated to the poet, with a reconstructed schoolroom and dorm.
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Papa Vaka Petroglyphs
About 100m off the coastal road (look for the sign), youll find a couple of massive basaltic slabs decorated with carvings featuring a tuna, a shark, an octopus and a large canoe.
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Museo Interactivo Mirador
The stimulus is more intellectual – but still fun – at the Museo Interactivo Mirador. Forget ‘do not touch’: you can handle, push, lie on, and even get inside most of the exhibits.
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Terminal Pesquero
A few blubbery male sea lions, snorting loudly and occasionally snapping at unwary pelicans, circle hopefully below Antofagastas busy fish market, just north of the Port Authority.
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Palacio de Bellas Artes
In Parque Forestal’s center is the stately neoclassical Palacio de Bellas Artes , built as part of Chile’s centenary celebrations in 1910. Two of Santiago’s art museums share the premises.
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Parque Forestal
On weekend afternoons, the temperature rises in Parque Forestal, a narrow green space wedged between Río Mapocho and Merced. The rest of the week its filled with joggers and power walkers.
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