The original manuscript of the Foundation of Santiago Act signed by Pedro de Valdivia, the Spanish Conquistador and the first Royal Governor of Chile in 1541 can be seen (and also read if you are able to translate the Spanish writing of that time). This is perhaps the oldest manuscript in the National Library collection.

Big Magazine exhibition in Metro de Santiago, 50 Billboards reaching 2 MM people a day.

The passport released by the Chilean Embassy in Paris to Gabriela Mistral and his young nephew “Yin-yin”. Gabriela Mistral is the pen-name of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, the teacher and poet laureate with the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1945.

The National Museum of Natural History.

Big Magazine Exhibition of the Santiago Museums in the Metro de Santiago presented by the Dibam (Department of Libraries, Archives and Museum of Chile).

The National Digital Library digitalizing the "Nuremberg Chronic" (1493).

The Quinta Normal Park was designed by the XIX century erudite patriots as an encouraging educative space. Today, five museums exist inside its perimeter. The most characteristic of them is the National Museum of Natural History, lodged in a beautiful neoclassical building.

The National Museum of Natural History in Santiago

The National Museum of Art in Santiago

I remember you as you were in the last Autumn. You were the grey beret and the still heart. In your eyes the flames of twilight fought on and the leaves fell in the water of your soul. Pablo Neruda

Ritoque. The Open City is a field for experimental architecture, an initiative by the teachers and alumni at the Design and Architecture School in the Catholic University of Valparaíso which created this Co-operative. And, since acquiring 300 hectares of terrain north of the Aconcagua River in 1971, it has been constructing an architecture with no precedent. An existential Laboratory, surrealistic, symbolic, hybrid, wilful.

Photographed by Anthony Hamboussi.

La Chascona, Pablo Neruda's house in Bellavista, Santiago. La Chascona appears as a house of fairytales, an enchanted garden hanging over the city. The same spirit that brings Neruda’s poetry to life is also present in his houses. The houses of Neruda spill over into his poetic works .

Valparaiso

Valparaiso a labyrinth of cobbled alleyways and colorful buildings

The Chilean National museum of fine arts, Bellas Artes, established in 1880 it is the oldest in South America, the current building was built in 1910 by French-Chilean architect Emile Jecquier. One of Santiago's most spectacular buildings.

Street art by Defos, Cerro Baron, Valparaiso

Big spent 7 days exploring the National park Alberto de Agostini in Patagonia. It is a mosaic of contrasting ecosystems. If you have the chance don't miss it, experience of a lifetime.

Alberto de Agostini National park in Patagonia, Chile, features a highly irregular coastline, which is deeply indebted with fjords. The Valleys not filled with water are covered by Glaciers