Cerro San Cristóbal
Hilltop park topped by a towering white Virgin statue, reached by funicular or cable car.
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On Cerro San Cristóbal in Santiago, this guide follows the 1922 stock sale that funded the hill's funicular, 465 mostly Italian immigrant shareholders backing engineer Ernesto Bozo Pezza's twenty-year license and architect Luciano Kulczewski's stone station built from the hill's own quarried rock. It traces the construction through the funicular's 1925 opening, when President Arturo Alessandri dined at the summit while passengers below rode cars split into first and second class.
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