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⭐ Highlights

3 Days in Santiago — Essential Highlights

Mercado Central seafood, the Andes panorama from Cerro San Cristóbal and Maipo Valley Carménère

📍 Santiago, Chile 📅 3-day itinerary

Santiago in 3 days: the most cosmopolitan city in South America — Andes above, Pacific within reach, the world's best sea urchin and the wine that defeated phylloxera.

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Also explore Santiago for:

Plaza de Armas, La Moneda & Barrio Italia

09:00
Plaza de Armas — founded by Pedro de Valdivia in 1541

The colonial heart of Santiago — Metropolitan Cathedral, cast-iron Central Post Office, street chess.

⏱ 1 hr 💶 Free
10:30
🏛️ La Moneda — the palace bombed in the 1973 coup

The presidential palace bombed by Pinochet's jets on September 11, 1973 — now beautifully restored.

⏱ 1 hr 💶 Free
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
15:00
⛰️ Cerro Santa Lucía — where Santiago was founded

The 69m hill transformed into a romantic park in the 1870s — city and Andes views for free.

⏱ 1 hr 💶 Free
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
18:00
🎨 Barrio Italia — cafés, murals and design studios

Santiago's creative quarter — Art Deco streets with vinyl shops, galleries and outdoor tables.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 Free
21:00
🐟 Congrio and Carménère dinner

Pablo Neruda's favourite fish with Chile's rediscovered grape — the most Chilean meal possible.

⏱ 2.5 hrs 💶 CLP 20,000–40,000

Mercado Central seafood, Cerro San Cristóbal & Bellavista

08:30
🦐 Mercado Central — picoroco barnacles for breakfast

The 1872 cast-iron fish cathedral — king crab from Magallanes, abalone, erizo and raw ceviche.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 CLP 8,000–25,000
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
11:30
🚡 Cerro San Cristóbal — cable car and 6,000m Andes

The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception at 880m with the Andes directly behind on clear days.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 CLP 5,000–7,000
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
14:30
🎭 La Chascona — Pablo Neruda's labyrinthine house

The poet's Santiago home named after his red-haired lover — a ship-shaped house filled with collections.

⏱ 2.5 hrs 💶 CLP 7,000
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide

Maipo Valley wine tour — Concha y Toro & Santa Rita

09:00
🍷 Concha y Toro — the Devil's Cellar in the Maipo Valley

Chile's most famous winery — the cellar where the devil allegedly guards the best bottles since 1883.

⏱ 3 hrs 💶 CLP 15,000–25,000
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
14:00
🏛️ Santa Rita — 120 patriots' hiding place and the 120 label

1880 colonial estate with Chilean independence history — Carménère the must-try grape.

⏱ 2.5 hrs 💶 CLP 12,000–20,000
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide
18:00
🥂 Bocanáriz wine bar — 400 Chilean wines by the glass

The best wine list in Chile in a Lastarria townhouse — the place to taste and compare.

⏱ 2 hrs 💶 CLP 8,000–20,000
23:30
🍹 Rooftop pisco sour — Santiago farewell

Chile's (and Peru's) most contested cocktail — egg white, fresh lemon and pisco under the Andes.

⏱ 1 hr 💶 CLP 8,000–12,000

📍 Route map

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