Barrio Concha y Toro

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• The neighborhood "Concha y Toro" is located in the west side of Santiago between the streets Alameda, Erasmo Escala, Cumming and Brasil. The houses have an eclectic historical style that collects neo-gothic, neo-classic, baroque and academic forms. The houses were designed by important architects of that period, among which stand out, Larraín Bravo, González Cortés, Siegel, Alberto Álamos, Smith Solar, Machicao and Bianchi, which obtained a great architectural harmony despite the individual differences. The objective was to reproduce a European neighborhood, for which it was built with small and curved streets interweaved with houses with continues facade around the previously called square Du Pont (today known as Libertad de Prensa). The access to the neighborhood la Alameda is clinched by the Theater Carrera, built in 1927 by the architects Gustavo Monckeberg and José Aracena, today National Monument (D487 de 1989), whose principal facade- facing la Alameda- is a modernist composition with some classic elements. Origin of the neighborhood... To understand how the neighborhood Concha Y Toro was gestated is necessary to go back 60 years before its construction, during the economic boom lived in Chile between 1870 and 1876, as a consequence of the mining operation and the discovery of the Caracoles Mine, During that economic boom many fortunes were raised by different miners and explorers such as José Díaz Gana y Enrique Concha y Toro. I think that this neighborhood is very beautiful and sometimes a kind of romantic place
• The description was provided by Jocelyn Escobar