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Ghost
tour
With
this tour we will discover the monumental cemetery of Santiago,
and through its monuments, the traces of people who lived here
once upon a time. Beyond the big gates you will find a majestic
space created in 1819 where the old wealthy bourgeois of
Santiago desired to find eternal rest.
Incredible
burials are immersed in a luxuriant vegetation and just be
careful not to get lost: you might miss the area strangely
called cementerio de los disidentes, created for all who
belonged to a different religion, or the “wall of the
desaparecidos”, victims of the years of dictatorship.
Statues
of mourning angels, crying babies, cold images of girls as white
as marble seem to move while they populate the vast cemetery as
a silent crowd of different times. Each slab has a story to tell,
about people ho had fears and hopes, who loved and fought for
their goals in life. Let us find some of them, for what they
want to tell us is that we are the ghosts of the future
ourselves!
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