{"id":66,"date":"2015-03-26T02:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T01:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ztron.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2016-05-08T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T18:45:43","slug":"2015-03-10-sight-seeing-in-santiago-de-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"2015-03-10: Sight Seeing in Santiago de Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Plaza del Armas: A decent plaza with a fountain honouring Simon Bolivar. He liberated South America from the Spanish colonial rule, and assumed the presidency of most of these countries in the process &#8212; very much like his role model Napoleon presided over Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Catedral Metropolitan: Catholicism is very much alive in Chile. The cathedral looks\u00a0 not particularily South American. It could be somewhere in Spain.<\/li>\n<li>Museo National Historico: A short exhibition mainly focusing on Chile&#8217;s colonial past. It ended with a picture of Salavore Allende&#8217;s broken glaces. The glaces are still covered with sprinkles of blood as a result of Allende&#8217;s suicide. He killed himself in the presidential palace using an AK-47 refusing to succumb to Pinochet coup d&#8217;etat in 1973. The glaces themselves are currently under restoration. Gruesome Gruesome&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Museo Precolumbino: Mostly pottery and other artifacts from Indian cultures living South America before the invasion of the Spaniards starting from 1535. There were actually many\u00a0indigenous cultures , the most known being\u00a0 the Inca and the Mayas. Most striking I found the &#8220;string storage&#8221; of the Inca (the Inca version of an USB stick), a bundle of strings that the Inca used for record keeping. The information is encoded as knots. The exact knowledge how is however lost in time. And, the most striking similarity: One can hang it around the neck \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" style=\"width: 3216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_0137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_0137.jpg\" alt=\"INCA string storage\" width=\"3216\" height=\"2136\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">INCA String Storage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69\" style=\"width: 3216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_0085.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_0085.jpg\" alt=\"Fountain in memory of Simon Bolivar\" width=\"3216\" height=\"2136\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fountain in memory of Simon Bolivar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72\" style=\"width: 3216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_0049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_0049.jpg\" alt=\"Catedral Metropolitan\" width=\"3216\" height=\"2136\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catedral Metropolitan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaza del Armas: A decent plaza with a fountain honouring Simon Bolivar. He liberated South America from the Spanish colonial rule, and assumed the presidency of most of these countries in the process &#8212; very much like his role model Napoleon presided over Europe. Catedral Metropolitan: Catholicism is very much alive in Chile. 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