Sights in Vicuña
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Museo Gabriela Mistral
The town’s landmark Museo Gabriela Mistral, between Riquelme and Baquedano, is a tangible eulogy to one of Chile’s most famous literary figures. Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in 1889 in Monte Grande. The museum charts her life, from a replica of her adobe birthplace to her Nobel Prize, and has a clutch of busts making her seem a particularly strict schoolmarm. Her family tree indicates Spanish, indigenous and African ancestry. Like Pablo Neruda she served in the Chilean diplomatic corps.
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Museo Entomológico y de Historia Natural
Crawling with color, antennae and pincers, the small Museo Entomológico y de Historia Natural specializes in insects and kaleidoscopic butterflies, but also has fossils, stuffed birds and invertebrates.
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Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción
Just off the Plaza de Armas's western edge, the Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción (1909) has a few ceiling paintings and an image of the Virgen del Carmen carried by Chilean troops during the War of the Pacific.
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Cerro de la Virgen
The dusty hike up Cerro de la Virgen, just north of town, offers vast panoramas of the entire Elqui Valley, but it's hot and exposed - bring water. The summit is less than an hour's walk from the Plaza de Armas.
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Casa Solar de los Madariaga
Dating from 1875, and looking good for it, the adobe mansion Casa Solar de los Madariaga contains furnishings and artifacts from an influential family who made its money exporting chinchilla.
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Torre Bauer
Just off the Plaza de Armas's western edge, the eccentric Torre Bauer (1905) is a rusty-colored clock tower resembling a lanky toy castle; it was built by a former German mayor.
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Observatorio Comunal Cerro Mamalluca
Two of Vicuña's biggest attractions, Observatorio Comunal Cerro Mamalluca and Planta Capel (outside town), are just outside town.
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Planta Capel
Two of Vicuña's biggest attractions, Planta Capel and Observatorio Comunal Cerro Mamalluca, are just outside town.
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Museo Histórico de Elqui
The Museo Histórico de Elqui has Diaguita ceramics and 19th-century bits and pieces.
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