2 Best Sights in Santiago, Chile

Don't be put off by the shops selling car parts at the entrance to this intimate neighborhood on the north side of La Alameda between avenues Brasil and Ricardo Cumming. Developed in the 1920s on land belonging to a mining branch of the Concha y Toro family—another branch founded the winery of the same name—the neighborhood has short winding streets spanning out from a central plaza with a fountain and an eclectic mixture of neoclassical, art deco, and Baroque houses, many designed by the same architects who worked on Barrio París-Londres. There is a restaurant, café, and occasional street fairs on weekends.

Many architects contributed to what is frequently referred to as Santiago's Little Europe, among them Alberto Cruz Montt, Jorge Elton Alamos, and Sergio Larraín. The string of small mansion houses lining the cobbled streets of Calles París and Londres sprang up in the mid-1920s on vegetable patches and gardens once belonging to the convent adjoining Iglesia San Francisco. The three- and four-story town houses are all unique; some have brick facades, while others are done in Palladian style.