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Explore Santiago at your own pace, from Cerro San Cristóbal to La Moneda Palace.
A private, flexible 4-hour city tour with hotel pickup, covering Cerro San Cristóbal, Cerro Santa Lucía, the Barrio Cívico and La Moneda Palace.
This private tour lets you set your own pace across Santiago's two signature hills and its civic core. Your guide takes you to Cerro San Cristóbal and Cerro Santa Lucía, through the Barrio Cívico, and to La Moneda Palace, sharing Chile's history and its impact on the capital along the way.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup included.
Visit Santiago's largest urban park and its hilltop viewpoint.
Explore this landscaped hill in the heart of downtown, built on the site where Santiago was founded.
Walk through Santiago's civic and government district.
See Chile's seat of government and learn its real history.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private, flexible 4-hour city tour with hotel pickup, covering Cerro San Cristóbal, Cerro Santa Lucía, the Barrio Cívico and La Moneda Palace. This private tour lets you set your own pace across Santiago's two signature hills and its civic core. Your guide takes you to Cerro San Cristóbal and Cerro Santa Lucía, through the Barrio Cívico, and to La Moneda Palace, sharing Chile's history and its impact on the capital along the way.
Cerro Santa Lucía has a longer history than its manicured gardens suggest. The Mapuche called this rocky outcrop Huelén, and it was at its base that Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago on February 12, 1541 — making this small hill, not Plaza de Armas, the city's actual founding point. For most of its history it stayed a wild, fortified outcrop, until Santiago's mayor Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna transformed it between 1872 and 1874 into the landscaped park you walk through today, reportedly hauling in some 18,000 cartloads of soil along with palm trees, cacti and flowering plants to cover the bare rock. It was declared a National Historical Monument in 1983.
The Barrio Cívico, Santiago's government district, is a 20th-century creation built specifically to surround La Moneda. It was formally established by presidential decree on February 11, 1930, under President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, with the district's layout designed by Austrian architect Karl Brunner — its main axis runs north to south from Plaza de la Constitución through La Moneda itself to Paseo Bulnes and Parque Almagro, and today it houses most of Chile's central government ministries.
La Moneda itself began life in 1805 as the Royal Mint before becoming the presidential palace in 1846, and it's impossible to walk past it without its best-known chapter coming up: the September 11, 1973 military coup, when the building was bombed and President Salvador Allende died inside. Your guide covers this directly as part of the walk, alongside the lighter history of Cerro San Cristóbal above — Santiago's largest hilltop park, topped by a Virgin Mary statue whose exact height is reported differently across sources (commonly cited as either about 14 or 22 meters), erected to mark the Immaculate Conception in the early 20th century.
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