ARGENTINA | Tuesday, 19 February 2008 | Views [347]
This is the Plaza De Armas in Santiago. Population 4,671,500. This city was founded by Pedro de Valdivia in 1541. It was chosen for its moderate climate and strategic location for defence. It remained a small town until the 1880s when the city experienced the nitrate boom. Then the population exploded. The city has nice neoclassical arctitecture but many of the historical buildings in downtown were destroyed in 1985 by an earthquake. Now it is a city with many high rises and a few monumental buildings. It´s houses the headquarters for mutinational companies such as Yahoo, JP Morgan and Microsoft. It feels like a safe city but Jason witnessed 3 robberies in one day! The metro is clean and very efficient.
