Santiago is often a night between flights. Given two days, it reveals a capital that faces its recent history openly, set between the Andes and a ring of hills. An hour away towards the Pacific, the cool coastal valleys of Casablanca and San Antonio make some of Chile's best white wines.
Day 1 · Bellavista and the Museum of Memory
Highlight · La Chascona, the house Neruda built in Bellavista for Matilde Urrutia.
La Chascona, the house Pablo Neruda built in Bellavista in 1953 for Matilde Urrutia, his secret love and later his third wife, opens the visit. Lunch in the neighbourhood, then the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, dedicated to the victims of the human rights violations of 1973 to 1990 and to the conversation about why they must not happen again.
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Day 2 · The civic centre and the hills
Highlight · Santiago laid out below the San Cristóbal hill, reached by cable car.
The old centre on foot: the Plaza de Armas and the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Pre-Columbian Art Museum, one of the finest in the city, the Paseo Ahumada to La Moneda, the Central Market and the Mapocho station. Then Lastarria and the Santa Lucía hill. In the afternoon, past the Fine Arts Museum back to Bellavista and up the San Cristóbal hill by cable car for the view over Santiago, and finally the boutiques and houses of Vitacura and Alonso de Córdova.
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Day 3 · Casablanca and San Antonio valleys
Highlight · Dinner at a biodynamic vineyard in the San Antonio valley, and a night among its vines.
Drive · 1 h
An hour west towards the coast and Valparaíso, two family wineries in the white-wine valleys: a tasting and lunch at the first, and at the second, in the San Antonio valley, a vineyard worked biodynamically, with a tour, tasting and dinner. The night is at the vineyard, in the Casablanca valley.
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Day 4 · Casablanca to Santiago
Highlight · A last free morning among the vines of the Casablanca valley.
A free morning among the vines before the drive back to Santiago airport.
