statue of Salvador Allende outside Palacio Moneda

January 28th 2015
We visited the Presidential Palace or as it is also called Palacio Moneda because they still make Chile’s peso coins here. The president doesn’t live in the palace but lives in his own house alongside the rest of the population. Outside the palace there are statues of Chile’s presidents. It was in 1970 that Chile elected its’ first socialist president Salvador Allende. He struggled to main ... 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

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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

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