Santiago's main sights cluster around its colonial-era core. Plaza de Armas (Arms Square), the city's central square marks the exact spot of its founding by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia in 1541, and remains the heart of the historic center. Facing it is the Metropolitan Cathedral, whose fifth and current incarnation was built between 1748 and 1906 in a Neoclassical style designed by Italian architect Joaquín Toesca
Read more in Tripatini contributor Marcos Stone´s post Santiago, Chile, South America´s "Bohemian" Capital.
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