Hello friends of the Israel, in this occasion it wanted to present/display one to them of the most prosperous cities of Latin America; Santiago de Chile.
The spanish conqueror Pedro de Valdivia arrived at the Valley of the Mapocho, the 12 of February of 1541. Thus, in order to initiate Conquer of Chile, it founds the city of Santiago de Nueva Extremadura (on honor to the Santiago Apostle, saint pattern of Spain) next to the Huelén Hill (now called Santa Lucía).
Actually the population exceed the 6 million of inhabitants (6.335.000 in).

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The modern city
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Santiago under the snow.
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Thanks for your comments.

hehehe buetiful city!
i like it :D

never been there but I really would like to do south america.
great city!!

I'd bet a flight from TLV-EZE-SCL would do well.

wooooooooooow great!
thanx for sharing

Mooie foto's Dirk. Santiago de chile is een stad waar ik nog niet veel van heb gezien. Heb je nog meer foto's van het oude gedeelte?

Thanks for sharing those pics, Dirk!

Indeed Santiago de Chile is the most prosperous capital in Lat.Am. And all of you are welcome to visit it any time! :)

Henk, I will show you the old parts of the city later

you know something
the most astonishing surprising city in the world I discovered here on SSC, is Santiago de Chile .

you know something
the most astonishing surprising city in the world I discovered here on SSC, is Santiago de Chile .

hebreeeww....I think that was the best comment I've ever heard about my city!

I'm not surpriced that it came from an Israeli! Lovely people!! I still remember my tel-aviv tour in 2000 at the Isrotel ;)

Take care and I'll put some pics (as requested) from the older neo-classical european parts of the city :)

MAZEL-TOV to our countries (spelled it right?)

O.K soon more photos of downtown of Santiago.

Thanks for your comments Sauvalle. Greetings :okay:

Greetings Dirk!

Ok, I'll post some pics that fellow chilean forumers shared:
(thanks to Pablo Ateaga among others)

Santiago older parts:

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Hope you liked the shots...there's simply too much to show here, I had to stop :D

That's some of many old parts of Santiago de Chile...

Thanks Sauvalle, amazing pics.

Great pictures! thanks for showing our city.

Greetings

wow, it's so beatiful!!

Thanx for sharing!

i have very good friends in santigo, actually my cousin marry a guy from santiago, i was planning to go with him to chile, i hope to go there next year :)

^^can i go with u?
so nice country!

lol! ok, I could show you around during summer, that is in nov-dec ;)

Do you want to see the equalent to tel-aviv in Chile?
It's a nice city by the ocean called "Viña del Mar"

Btw, I know 2 girls (jewish) one of them has parents who bought an apartment by the long avenue on the beach, same street as the isrotel and mm..turning something hotel. So If I go there we must go clubbing ;)

mind I'm NOT jewish, so don't expect me to sit and relax during shabbat :P hehe

who sit and relax in shabbat?:D

not meeee!!!! well only if i have a huge bottle of rum!!!! :D:D

who sit and relax in shabbat?:D

Hahaha you naughty boy!


Herzeleid, I got some rum...it's havana club...pretty good! I'll drink for you :)

le chaim man!!!! i have heard viña is the place to be in the shilean summer, maybe next year i'll visit you over there sauvalle!! :D:D

other photos but of Santiago

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great pics - it has lots of European elements in it!

exelentes

MORE CHILE :D

i like it.
it's very south american. very nice.
if i got enough money i will come to visit right after the vication in the Caribbeans.

AND THIS AS GOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH ISRAELLLLLLLLLL

Santiago looks like Europe!

very nice city

The rest of Chile looks like Israel.

Night large image of Santiago de Chile

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WOW!

amazing!

this mountains are just WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

uGLY CITY.:ohno: