An Oasis of calm in the city of 6 million (of 16 million in Chile). Cerro Santa Lucia was a "barren" rock outcrop that was ignored in teh center of Santiago for centuries. The base of this hill was the site of Pedro Valdivia's officially declaring Ssntiago a town in 1541.
Cerro Santa Lucia sat ignored until 1872 when the mayor, in a well established colonial Spanish-style act, set 150 prisoners to work transforming it with plantings and major landscaping.
