Universidad de Chile (in

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: ''University of Chile'') station is a transfer station between the Line 1 and Line 3 of the

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. It is an underground station located between

La Moneda Palacio de La Moneda (, ''Palace of the Mint''), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency and General Secre ...

and Santa Lucía stations on the same line. It is located at the junction of

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, also known as "Alameda", and

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in the commune of

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. The Line 1 station was opened on 31 March 1977 as part of the extension of the line from La Moneda to Salvador. The Line 3 station was opened on 22 January 2019 as part of the inaugural section of the line, from Los Libertadores to

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Vicinity

The station is named after the

Universidad de Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

(University of Chile), whose oldest campus is located in the immediate vicinity. Other landmarks near the station include the

, a four-block pedestrian shopping street; the

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, or simply "Instituto Nacional", Chile's oldest and most prestigious school; Barrio París-Londres, San Francisco Church, the

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La Moneda Palace Palacio de La Moneda (, ''Palace of the Mint''), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency and General Secreta ...

and the main headquarters of some of Chile's oldest banks.

Connections

There are seven

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bus stops in the streets above the station, and it is also developed into a transfer station for the Metro Line 3, which was completed by January 22, 2019. Mural de Toral en metro estacion Universidad de Chile

Mural de Toral en metro estacion Universidad de Chile

Mural Memoria Visual de una Nación

Universidad de Chile Station features a 1200 square meter

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called "Memoria Visual de una Nación" (Visual Memory of a Nation), painted by

Mario Toral Mario Toral Muñoz (born in Santiago, Chile, on 12 February 1934) is a Chilean painter and photographer. Career At the age of 16, Toral moved to Buenos Aires, where he saved money to enroll in the Escuela de Bellas Artes (School of Fine Arts) i ...

, a Chilean painter and photographer. The mural is located in the platform area and its divided into two parts: "Pasado" (“Past”), finished in 1996, and "Present" (“Present”) finished in 1999. It shows fragments of Chile's history, from the violent Spanish conquest to the modern day. In 2011,

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named Universidad de Chile one of its "Subway stations worth getting off the train for", and in 2014, the BBC named it one of the seven most beautiful stations in the world.Plataforma Urbaba
Estación de metro U. de Chile es elegida entre las 7 más bonitas del mundo

References

Santiago Metro stations Railway stations opened in 1977 Railway stations in Chile 1977 establishments in Chile Santiago Metro Line 1 Santiago Metro Line 3 {{Santiago-geo-stub