Franklin
Former slaughterhouse district turned sprawling flea market of antiques, secondhand goods and street food stalls.
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This guide to Franklin in Santiago opens on January 11, 1976, with flames moving through the city's old public slaughterhouse. It goes back to 1847 and the businessman who gave this land to the city, to the railway that arrived in 1890, and to the canal of filthy water along the district's southern edge. Best heard standing among the covered stalls, where you can look around as the guide describes what the grounds once were.
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