Architectural, Cultural sights in Santiago
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Palacio Cousiño
‘Flaunt it’ seems to have been the main idea behind the shockingly lavish Palacio Cousiño. It was built between 1870 and 1878 by the prominent Cousiño-Goyenechea family after they’d amassed a huge fortune from wine-making and coal and silver mining, and it’s a fascinating glimpse of how Chile’s 19th-century elite lived. Carrara marble columns, a half-ton Bohemian crystal chandelier, Chinese cherrywood furniture, solid gold cutlery, and the first electrical fittings in Chile are just some of the ways they found to fritter away their fortune.
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Casa Colorada
Few colonial houses are still standing in Santiago, but the simple, oxblood-colored Casa Colorada is a happy exception, although only the front half of the original 18th-century building has survived. It contains a small, under-resourced branch of the municipal tourist office and the sweetly amateurish Museo de Santiago.
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