Barrio Concha y Toro

This guide to Barrio Concha y Toro in Santiago starts with the crooked, curved streets of this neighborhood, laid out in the 1920s to erase a straight line that once ran through a single grand estate. It follows two men, Enrique Concha y Toro and José Díaz Gana, through a shared property and a Chilean mining boom in the 1870s, and what happened when that boom collapsed in 1876. It follows Concha y Toro's widow, Teresa Cazotte, as she decides what to do with his estate after his death. Listen for how many bends you can count in the very first block.