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Between the Andes and the Pacific lies Santiago de Chile, the capital, where seven million people live, a third of the country's population, in an area similar to that of Madrid. Santiago is the second business city in Latin America and a place of opportunity for many Madrilenians who have travelled there in search of work. In contrast, the average salary of Chileans is about 350 euros. With them we tour the city and the region, because Santiago is a city, it is a mountain and it is a sea. We visit some of the most representative places such as the Bellavista neighbourhood, the central market, the funicular or the Metropolitan Cathedral, restored on many occasions due to the numerous earthquakes that the city has suffered. Chile is considered one of the most seismically active countries and the last major earthquake, which occurred in 2010, caused the death of 700 people. The modern part of the city, full of skyscrapers, is prepared to withstand earthquakes and proof of this is that they have built the tallest tower in South America there. The Chilean capital is lively and it is worth getting to know its culture and traditions, some of which are recent but deeply rooted, such as the street pianos where anyone can improvise a concert or eat an empanada. For the people of Madrid, it is an advantage that Spanish is spoken in Santiago, but they have had to get used to expressions or meanings typical of a country where policemen are called 'pacos' or petrol stations are called 'bombas'. The tour of Santiago could easily end on the coast, in Isla Negra, visiting the house museum of one of its most illustrious citizens, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, Pablo Neruda.