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Santiago de Chile

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December 4th 2009
Buonasera, What can I say............what a fabulous city......very sophisticated ( also expensive....on a par with Europe but prohibitively expensive by S American standards ), very clean and modern. All the designer shops you can think of and an excellent fish market, where I ate at the Galleon ( excellent sea bass )..which goes some way to redeem the disaster in Punta Arenas. Huge plaz ... read more

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more