Santiago
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas.
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. Located in the Chilean Central Valley within the Santiago Basin, between the Andes to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range to the west, it anchors the Santiago Metropolitan Region and its conurbation of Greater Santiago, which comprises more than forty communes and concentrates over a third of the national population and around 45% of Chile's GDP. Most of the city lies between 500 and 650 meters above sea level, with recent urban growth extending into the Andean foothills.
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Worth seeing in and around Santiago
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Chile
The University of Chile is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.
800 m · public university in Santiago, Chile · Wikipedia - 02Julio Martínez Prádanos National Stadium
The Julio Martínez Prádanos National Stadium is an association football stadium in Santiago, Chile. Located in the Ñuñoa commune, it is part of the National Stadium Sports Park, a 62 hectare sporting complex which also features tennis courts, an aquatics center, a modern gymnasium, a velodrome, a BMX circuit, and an assistant ground/warmup athletics track.
4.7 km · stadium in Santiago, Chile · Wikipedia - 03Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile is a private research university in Santiago, Chile. It is one of the thirteen Catholic universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities in the country, along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso.
1 km · Chilean university · Wikipedia - 04Gran Torre Costanera
Gran Torre Costanera, previously known as Costanera Center Torre 2, also known as El Costanera by locals, and previously known as Torre Gran Costanera, is a 62-story skyscraper in Santiago, Chile. It is the tallest building in South America, the second tallest building in Latin America, and the fifth tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere.
4.6 km · skyscraper in Chile · Wikipedia - 05National Library of Chile
The National Library of Chile is the national library of Chile. It is located on the Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins in Santiago, in a building completed in 1925, though its history reaches to the early nineteenth century before it was relocated to its current home.
700 m · library of Chile · Wikipedia - 06University of Santiago
The University of Santiago, Chile is one of the oldest public research universities in Chile. It was founded as Escuela de Artes y Oficios in 1849 by Ignacy Domeyko, under the government of Manuel Bulnes.
3.3 km · Chilean university · Wikipedia - 07Estadio Monumental (Chile)
The Estadio Monumental is a football stadium in Macul, south-east of the centre of the Chilean capital Santiago. It serves as the home ground of Colo-Colo, and on occasions also for other clubs and the national football team.
8.7 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 08Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts
The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art. Established in 1880, the organization is managed by the Artistic Union.
600 m · national monument of Chile · Wikipedia - 09Chilean National Museum of Natural History
The Chilean National Museum of Natural History is one of three national museums in Chile, along with the Museum of Fine Arts and the National History Museum. It is located in Quinta Normal Park, and was founded in 1830 by the French naturalist Claudio Gay.
3 km · natural history museum in Chile · Wikipedia - 10Universidad Mayor
Universidad Mayor is a private university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded in 1988 and is accredited by the United States Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
4.6 km · Chilean private university · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
See #Districts for listings. The Historical Center is the place to go for historical sights. For over five centuries this has been a governmental seat, and you can find buildings of great historical significance here. One of them is the modernist colonial Palacio de la Moneda, built for minting of coins.
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Things to do
See #Districts for listings. Santiago is known as a cultural hotspot. Among other things, the city is home to an impressive jazz scene, with several intimate clubs scattered throughout the city, a famous one being Club Jazz in the Nuñoa district. In the Providencia district a jazz festival takes place each January with both local and foreign bands playing.
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Where to eat
See #Districts for listings. In downtown and the east of the city you can find both global and domestic fast food chains. Why not opt for the latter and have a completo, the Chilean version of the hot dog with tomato, mayonnaise, sauerkraut or a italiano hot dog with tomato, avocado and mayonnaise.
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Getting to Santiago
- Airports
- Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez (SCL), 14 km · Governor Francisco Gabrielli (MDZ), 186 km
- Stations
- San Pablo, 6.8 km · Universidad de Chile, 700 m
- Concepcion → Santiago434 km · quickest by air, 4h 29m · CLP$59,090–91,640
- Temuco → Santiago613 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · CLP$78,870–122,370
- Mendoza → Santiago179 km · quickest by road, 6h 30m · AR$20,700–27,600
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Santiago
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Santiago. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe port in Praia has direct and indirect connections by ferry to other islands.
- Get aroundMost of the buses ("aluguer") leave from the "central minibus station" at the bottom of the steps that lead from Parque 5 de Julho to the Old Town in Plato besides the market called Sucupira.
- Get aroundAlso of note, the minibuses often have destinations in decals on their sides (e.g.
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Next door to Santiago
Santiago is 14 km from Maipú, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Recoletatown in Chile2.3 km
- Huechurabacity and commune of Chile9.9 km