Plaza de Armas (Santiago)
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The Plaza de Armas is the
The square, the nearby former National Congress building and surrounding buildings were registered on 3 December 1986 as a national monument as a zona típica.[1]
History
The church is the centerpiece of the initial layout of Santiago, which has a square
Pre Hispanic Period (Pre Colonisation)
The Investigator
There would have been a Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire) urban centre, under the old city of Santiago, from which Inca roads went out in different directions and whose base of sustenance was hydro-agriculture and gold and silver mining, [...] the infrastructure of this installation would have been used by (the Spanish conqueror) Pedro de Valdivia to found the city of Santiago.
Spanish Colonial Period
The Chilean Capital was founded by
Around the plaza formed recovas or markets, as goods arrived in this area during the Colonial period. In the middle there was , galley para hang the sentenced and show royal power.[9]
Freedom of Latin America monument
The monument is located at the center of the square and depicts an allegory of Freedom, with a woman breaking the chains of a native woman. It is made of Carrara marble and sculpted by Francesco Orselino.[10] The monument replaced a bronze fountain made in 1671, which is presently located in La Moneda Palace.[11]
Other commemorative structures include an equestrian statue of Pedro de Valdivia, a statue of James the Great, the indigenous peoples monument, a time capsule, and ground plaques, including that marking the kilometre zero of Santiago.
Entorno
On the west side of the square, on the northwest corner, is the Catedral Metropolitana de Santiago. Although the first construction of a church was carried out in conjunction with the founding of the city, the present building is the fifth to be built on the site. Construction began in 1748 and was completed in 1775. However, in 1780, the architect Joaquín Toesca designed a new façade for the Cathedral and the adjoining Iglesia del Sagrario. At the end of the century Ignacio Cremonesi was commissioned by Bishop Casanova to carry out an integral remodelling of the cathedral, which included new façades, a modification of the interior nave and the construction of two towers facing the square and a dome over the main altar.
Facing the north side of the Plaza are the old colonial government buildings. From west to east, the
The building of the
The
The building of the Municipality occupies the site where the colonial
Around the Plaza there are also various commercial premises, such as the
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Plaza de Armas, Congreso Nacional y su entorno" (in Spanish). National Monuments Council. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ^ Descubren ciudad inca de Mapocho oculta bajo Santiago de Chile
- ^ Santiago:Una ciudad fundada sobre otra ciudad Archived 2014-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Artículo "Mapocho Incaico" (3000 kb )
- ^ Entrevista al arqueólogo Rubén Stehberg acerca de la ciudadela inca del Mapocho[dead link]
- ^ Descubren ciudad inca de Mapocho oculta bajo Santiago de Chile Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Stehberg, Rubén. "Mapocho Incaico" (PDF). Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- ^ EducarChile (2013). "12 de febrero de 1541: Fundación de la ciudad de Santiago". Archived from the original (APP) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ Gubin, Anastasia (23 January 2013). "La ciudad Inca bajo Santiago de Chile".
- ^ Lahr Brandolini, Renata (5 March 2011). "Refrescante patrimonio urbano". El Mercurio. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ Rodríguez, Hernán (1983). Palacio de la Moneda (in Spanish). Santiago: Dibam. p. 81.