Plaza Italia Santiago

... Chascona itself!     We followed suit after the locals and lazed around in Santiago's many gorgeous parks enjoying their fountains around Plaza Italia and the androgynous sculptural creations of local up and coming artists at Park Esculturas ...

... it.we then passed the santa lucia hill where you can get a panoramic view of the city.   The next stop was the plaza italia before the bella vista quarter which was the bar and restaurant district of santiago. It seemed really cool and we were just ...

... ; I wanted a Pisco Sour for breakfast, but settled for Nescafe. This time we went north from our hostal (away from the metro/plaza Italia) towards Cerro San Cristobal and the big white Mary on the hill.  We walked through the food/bar frenzy  of ...

... of them on and they pretend to pack up and then carry on as soon as their backs are turned. We walk to Plaza Italia another large road intersection which is surrounded by more colonial oldey worldey buildings and is near where we stayed last time. ...

... went to see the hostel which was in a dodgy area so went to another which was fine and cheaper, near the Plaza Italia, Hostal Chile. Santiago is 5 hours behind UK so bodyclocks still v confused but knew we were hungry. Wandered down our road and saw ...

... dropped our bags and were of to our sight seeing tour! So they could see the important things of Santiago... Plaza des Armas, Cerro Santa Lucia, Plaza Italia, Tandem (my school) and my host family :-) Afterwards we had an early dinner and I sent them ...

... Fine Arts) Parque Forestal (Forestal Park) – really pretty and full of people getting in on in the grass Plaza Italia (Italy Square) Barrio Bellavista (Bellavista Neighborhood) Casa de Pablo Neruda (Neruda Museum) Cerro San Cristóbal (San ...

... in my class. I met up with her again at the Fiesta de la Resurrección (Resurrection Party) in the main plaza of Santiago (Plaza Italia) the night before Easter, this time with her fellow volunteers Manuela and Perrine. All of them were French and lived ...

... a hotspring and a 2-hour climb to the top of a small mountain there. We were advised that we could get a bus from Plaza Italia, a big roundabout. At 10.00h we arrived at the aforementioned square, but we couldn't find a busstop for the service we ...

... decided we didn't really want to take in the sights of downtown so headed across the river to Bellavista.  We crossed Plaza Italia which was surrounded with barriers that were kept there for the student demonstrations, the river was more of a ...

... order!   The University De Chilie won the national football league & they place went mad!! The whole of the plaza italia was full of people celebrating. Every day we saw different demonstrations and protests mainly to do with the cost of ...

Hi Folks, Well it´s all coming to an end, we have been in Santiago now for three days and have managed to see Plaza Italia, the Zoo and the Main shopping avenues. We are heading off to Dominica tomorrow which has a large Shopping mall for rich ...

... 8217; avocado at a typical Chilean sandwich bar, Fuente Alemana, simply delicious! There are 2 things that have amazed us about Santiago and I’m sure we’ll continue to see throughout Chile. Firstly the number of stray dogs and we aren’t ...

... ; Luckily, it was a decent day in terms of visibility so I could make out the mountains (there's a big smog problem in Santiago).  That was the highlight of today.  I also walked through a nice neighborhood closeby that´s a mini cultural center ...

... acquired and now very much unwanted pedigree pooch onto the streets where everybody else then dutifully feeds it! After 4 days in Santiago we ventured a couple of hundred kms west to the South Pacific Coast and the historic city of Valparaiso. The old ...

... to use transportation system. Our hotel, the RQ Santiago Suites was just five stops away. With relatively little trouble, the RQ Santiago Suites staff provided us a very nice one bedroom suite on the 22nd floor downtown. It was a corner studio lined with ...