What to do and where to go in Santiago.

The classical place that tourists should visit is the city center, where they can find all the old buildings, museums, tipical restaurantes and bars. But I think there's a lot more than that en Santiago, like cultural centers, "picadas", and of course, the places that are far from the center, with a natural enviroment and country activities. Clearly, if someone picks Santiago as a place to visit, maybe he or she is nor interested in this things.

If a person visit a new city, he or she should know all about living in that place. So I think a tourist must travel in the subway, in the buses of transantiago, drink a "terremoto", eat a "sopaipilla" in the street, buy some stuff at Santa Lucía's fair and look up Santiago from the top of San Cristóbal's hill.

In the first place, I would recomend to visit a place called "Pancho Causeo", in Estación Central. It's a tipical restaurant, with deliciuos and tradicional food and drinks, and it's served by a family, all of them very kind, humble and warm.

To take another sight of chilean society, I would recomend to visit Cousiño's Palace, it's a beautifull and well preserved place, that shows the style of life of one of the ancient richer families in the country.

Another place they should visit is the Bellavista's Neighborhood, with all of the cultural places -including Neruda's House-, bars and place to dance and do some karaoke.

In the other hand, for some knowledge of the place they're visiting, I should recomend to go to the very very center... the "Plaza de Armas", and goto to the Historical Museum, the Catholic Cathedral, the Post Office and the town hall.

In the last place, if they want to know some nice places to take a coffe or rest a little, a suggest to go to Lastarria's neighborhood. It isn't very large or spectacular, but it's worth visiting it.