La Granja District (Hometown)

Hello everyone, this semester began and the blog sessions with it. In this time, I'm going to tell you about my hometown.

I've always lived in La Granja district, in the south zone of Santiago. In the first picture, there is the landscape that I see every day when I take metro to go to university, La Granja Metro Station next to the highway, between suburbs of blocks and mountain range in the background.

La Granja Metro Station

Near to the municipality, there is Espacio Matta Cultural Centre, in which theatre concerts and play-acting are performed. Moreover, in this place is an artistic patrimony that gives the name to the centre: the mural of the commemoration of the first year of Salvador Allende government called "El primer gol del pueblo chileno" (The first goal of Chilean people) made by Roberto Matta and Brigada Ramona Parra (BRP). This artistic mural was hidden while military dictatorship, actually was covered with paint.

Espacio Matta Cultural Centre

In the third picture is the Mirador Interactive Museum, a place dedicated to teaching to people of all ages issues related to arts and sciences. MIM tries to motivate people with this issues, knowing that for much people this is (and will be) the only one experience with science laboratories.

Mirador Interactive Museum (MIM)

For arrive to Espacio Matta Cultural Centre, you have to take metro up to Santa Rosa Station and if you want to go to MIM, you need getting metro to Mirador Station and take 385 bus until you get bus stop in front of MIM.



That's all for today, I read you!




Keywords: Suburbs; Highway; Mountain Range; Metro Station; Patrimony; Art Legacy; Artistic Mural; Theatre; Art & Science.