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Huascar Battleship Museum

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Commissioned to build Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, Poplar on Thames, in England, in 1864, according to the design of Captain Cowper Coles of the Royal Navy, under the "Ericsson" model. His construction contract was signed on August 12, 1864, between Ship Captain José María Salcedo, representing the government of Peru, and the Laird Brothers shipyards.

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works

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Humberstone and Santa Laura works represent over 200 former saltpeter works where workers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia lived in company towns and forged a distinctive communal pampinos culture.

O'Brien Underwater Naval Museum

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The O'Brien submarine belongs to the Oberón class and was built in 1971 in Scotland, at the request of the Chilean Navy, arriving in the city of Punta Arenas on August 10, 1976. After having completed 25 years of service it was discharged on December 31, 2001, being acquired by the Municipality of Valdivia to be used for its current use. It is the second of the Oberón class that remains afloat in the world and is one of the three submarines that exist in South America as a museum.

Centro Gabriela Mistral - GAM

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The Centre Gabriela Mistral, GAM, is a cultural centre devoted to disseminate and promote performing arts and music. Among many other activities, it offers contemporary drama and dance, as well as classic and popular music a space to continuous development and experimentation. Furthermore, with an emphasis on contemporary photography and popular arts, the GAM houses a range for visual arts. Due to its high demands for transparency, variety and quality, it is orientated to generate direct encounters between artists and diverse audiences.

Baha i House

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A gathering place for South America. Located in the foothills of the Andes in Santiago, Chile, the Bahá’í House of Worship of South America opens its doors on October 19th 2016. It will welcome individuals from Santiago and from all over the world to visit, contemplate in its gardens and to participate in the community activities for which it is a focal point. This House of Worship, joins those other continental houses of worship, as a meeting point that promotes unity through free participation in acts of prayer and service while in a serene environment, free of rituals or ceremonies. The Bahá’í community offers this place as a concrete contribution to the continuing development of our society— a place open to all, promoting bonds of unity, and heeding the call made by Bahá’u’lláh, the Founder of the Bahá’í Faith: “Build ye houses of worship throughout the lands in the name of Him Who is the Lord of all religions… Then, with radiance and joy, celebrate therein the praise of your Lord, the Most Compassionate.”

Movistar Arena

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The best Arena in South America. Movistar Arena is the main multipurpose roofed enclosure of the country, located in O'Higgins Park in Santiago de Chile, it is designed to host all kinds of events: Concerts, conferences, musicals, sports, fairs and corporate corporate parties, since it has a first level infrastructure and a capacity that goes from 12 thousand people sitting in numbered seats, up to 16 thousand spectators for standing recitals. Movistar Arena has an outstanding team of professionals prepared to work and deliver the best service for the performance of various shows on the premises.

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Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts

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In 1905, the design of the Palace of Fine Arts was entrusted to the Chilean-French architect Émile Jéquier, who was inspired by the internal route and the facade of the Petit Palais in Paris. Its neoclassical style also includes ornaments characteristic of the Art Nouveau prevailing at the time. The high relief of the pediment of the Museum, work executed by the Chilean sculptor Guillermo Cordova, represents an allegory to the Fine Arts. The subject was proposed by Jéquier himself and had to be made in white stone or cast cement. Among the ornaments of the exterior frieze of the museum building are twenty-two ceramic mosaic medallions representing great architects, sculptors and painters of universal art, among them Phidias, Praxiteles, Bramante,

Town of San Pedro Atacama

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At approximately 100 kilometers from Calama, the driest desert in the world jealously hides a small oasis called San Pedro de Atacama. A village of dirt streets and adobe housing that have stolen the heart of thousands tourists with the charms of the Atacama and Spanish culture evidenced in each one of its buildings.

Paranal hill observatory

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Paranal Hill Observatory is the most important astronomic investigation center in the country. It belongs to the Austral European Observatory (ESO) and it has high technology equipment for scientific reseach. For those who would like to visit the observatory, it´s necessary to ask for authorization to ESO in Antofagasta. The tours, only the 2 last weekends of the month, allow you to see the infrastructure and participate in chats about the astronomic world.

Salt Flat Museum

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The Salt Flat Museum Corporation (CMS) was created by former inhabitants and their descendants of the nitrate offices, with a constituent assembly date on November 23, 1997.

Iquique Naval Museum

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Thanks to the support of the Chilean Army, the Naval Museum serves its visitors in room No. 6 of the Tarapacá Military Museum since April 30, 2015. Its temporary exhibition exhibits 25 original pieces of the Emerald Corvette and one of the Huáscar monitor. Among them, the magnificent Baranda de Toldilla stands out, a piece of wood 8.25 meters long, 1.04 meters high and weighing approximately 450 kg, which shows the exact place from where Captain Arturo Prat gave his harangue Immortal to the glorious endowment of the Emerald Corvette, that day Wednesday, May 21, 1879.

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