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Santiago Barrio Yungay Street Art Walking Tour Experience

Name: Santiago Barrio Yungay Street Art Walking Tour Experience
Brand: Wonderplan
Rating: 5.0 (25 reviews)

★★★★★ 5.0 (25 reviews)

2 hours – 3 hours

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About This Experience

A vibrant route where art, identity, and community take center stage. We begin in the historic Quinta Normal Park and briefly visit the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, a meaningful introduction to the context behind much of Santiago’s urban expression. Then we dive into Yungay’s streets, transformed into open-air galleries. Powerful murals tell stories, we'll get to know the artists and learn about the locals. We explore iconic cultural corners like Pasaje Adriana Cousiño, and Pasaje Lucrecia Valdés, discovering heritage façades full of colo. The journey continues into energetic Barrio Brasil — a hub for alternative art, local stages, and creativity in motion. We finish at the bohemian Barrio Concha y Toro, a cinematic maze of curved streets and artistic soul.

With Roots & Routes, we create tourism with meaning — and we’ll recommend the best local art spaces, bites, and drinks so you can keep exploring Santiago’s creative heartbeat.

Tour Itinerary

10 min

We meet at the first agricultural research place built in Santiago, today a green lung of the city, wich also display a lot of Museums and cultural places

30 min

We will visit, in a summarized and concise manner for an analysis, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, to learning about what was experienced in Chile during the dictatorship, focusing on the humanitarian dimension, and its political impact to this day.

1h 15m

We will visit the Yungay neighborhood, first one ever designed in Santiago after our independance. We will learn about its history and ancient architecture, enjoy its extensive display of mural art, and learn about local artists.

15 min

We will visit a particular style of housing, the "cités", or now, 'ex-cités', understand the evolution of the concept through the years and see elegant facades more than 100 years old

15 min

We will cross through the Brazil neighborhood, a place of nightlife, beautiful squares and streets adorned with palm trees.

20 min

We will visit the second oldest hair salon in the world still in operation, next to a restaurant that seems frozen in time.

Visitaremos el estudio de artistas muralistas, y murales coloridos dentro de este hermoso barrio