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
Santiago Metro
The Santiago Metro ( es, Metro de Santiago) is a rapid transit system serving the city of Santiago, the capital of Chile. It currently consists of seven lines (numbered 1-6 and 4A), 136 stations, and of revenue route. The system is managed by th ...
. 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
Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins
Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins ( en, General Liberator Bernardo O'Higgins Avenue), popularly known as La Alameda (meaning, a street bordered by poplar trees), is the main avenue of Santiago, Chile. It runs east-west in the center o ...
, also known as "Alameda", and
Paseo Ahumada
Paseo Ahumada is four-block-long street in downtown Santiago. It extends in a north–south direction from Plaza de Armas to the Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins and is lined by buildings housing retail establishments at their lower ...
in the commune of
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...
. 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
Fernando Castillo Velasco
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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
Paseo Ahumada
Paseo Ahumada is four-block-long street in downtown Santiago. It extends in a north–south direction from Plaza de Armas to the Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins and is lined by buildings housing retail establishments at their lower ...
, a four-block pedestrian shopping street; the
Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera
Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, often shortened to Instituto Nacional (National Institute), is a public boys' school in downtown Santiago, Chile which teaches 4.400 students between 7th and 12th grade. 170 teachers are employed ...
, or simply "Instituto Nacional", Chile's oldest and most prestigious school;
Barrio París-Londres,
San Francisco Church, the
Santiago Stock Exchange
The Santiago Stock Exchange (SSE) ( es, Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago), founded on November 27, 1893, is Chile's dominant stock exchange, and the third largest stock exchange in Latin America, behind Brazil's BM&F Bovespa, and the Bolsa Mexicana ...
,
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
Transantiago
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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 Memoria Visual de una Nación
Universidad de Chile Station features a 1200 square meter
mural
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage.
Word mural in art
The word ''mural'' is a Spani ...
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,
Lonely Planet
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History Early years
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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
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