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Palacio Vergara description and photos - Chile: Vina del Mar. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Palacio Vergara.

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The Vergara Palace, with an area of 3000 square meters, was built in 1910 by the architect Ettore Vergara Petri Santini on the site of a family mansion destroyed by a terrible earthquake on August 16, 1906. This palace is the family home of Jose Francisco Vergara, who founded Vina del Mar. The prototype of the palace was an Italian villa in the Venetian Gothic style.

The daughter of Jose Francisco Vergara Etchevers, Blanca Errazriz Vergara Alvarez, lived in this palace. Dona Blanca was married to Guillermo Errazuriz and had five children: Hugh, William, White, Manuela and Amalia. Dona Blanca Errazriz Vergara Alvarez specially invited the most famous people of that time to her house and received them on the ground floor of the palace in the halls where the museum is currently located. Most of the furniture of different styles was bought in Europe.

Subsequently, many misfortunes fell to the lot of the Vergara family. Dona Blanca spent the last years of her life in one of the parts of Vergara's palace, all alone. She donated 60 works by prominent European artists to the collection of the museum that opened in the palace.

The last person who lived in the Vergara Palace was Amalia Errazuriz Vergara, who died shortly after the Vergara park and palace became the property of the municipality, and the Vergara Palace became the Museum of Fine Arts (1941).

The palace has beautiful lawns and gardens with exotic plants brought from Asia, Australia and California. The first floor of the palace is occupied by the Museum of Fine Arts, and on the upper floors, thematic seminars are now held, performances by guests of the Philharmonic, the School of Fine Arts is working.

At the entrance to the park you can see sculptures, including a bust of Gabriella Mistral, the famous Chilean poet, diplomat and educator, one of the leading figures in Chilean literature and the first woman in Latin America to be awarded the Nobel Prize. The bust was donated to the museum by sculptor Nina Anjuita.

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