From the window in our condo, you can see San Cristobal hill with a white statue. It was logical, that my first outing would be to go there! I asked Gabriela to please take me there so my first Saturday at her home, we took a combination of buses and taxis to get there.
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| Cable car station |
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| Going down |
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| Steep up! |
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| Gabriela and me with statue of Virgin Mary behind. There were 2 men near us here, so I asked them to take our photo. There were 4 of us: a Chilean woman, an American(me), a Philipino man, and a Japanese man. Default language=English! |
San Cristobal is the name of a hill which is the 2nd largest in Santiago. It was named by the Spanish conquistadors for St. Christopher, in recognition of its use as a landmark. The statue is of the Virgin Mary donated by France in the 1920s. The spot is a superb location from which to view the city - when the smog permits it (usually in the summer or after it rains). There is a beautiful church on the top as well...
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| Beautiful light streaming in! |
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