CHILE’S EARLY HISTORY – THE INCAS AND MAPUCHE January 28th 2015 In the Plaza de Armas there are statues commemorating the battle between Valdivia (he can be seen on a horse) and Lautaro from the Mapuche army who was responsible for the revolution in Chile, and killed Valdivia. In the early days before the Spanish arrived, the Incas and the Mapuche tribes lived together – Mapu is the Inca word for earth and Che means men in Inca so it literally describes men ... read more
South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago 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
I moved to Italy three years ago. I worked for two years in the Tuscany region and this year I've travelled through Rome (6 weeks) Pisa (3 months), Genova (2 months), Bologna (2 weeks), Venice (1 week), Naples (5 days.) Most of this trip was done under the second lockdown when Italy was empty of tourists.
I moved to Palermo, Sicily's capital at the end of May 2021 and lived there for 2 months, I left Palermo and spent 7 days in each of the following cities in this order - Agrigento, Trapani, Taormina, Ragusa, Siracusa and stayed in Catania for September. In October I moved to Naples for a t... full info