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Metropolitan Museum: Santa Rita Winery |
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It is located in Alto Jahuel at 36 km. South of Santiago. It is considered as a National Monument. The complex has houses, a church and a beautiful park all built in 1883. The winery was founded by Don Domingo Fernández Concha in his estate in Alto Jahuel. This estate had been functioning since the colonization time and was at the side of the old access road to Puente Alto. Bernardo O?Higgins lodged there after the Rancagua disaster and its warehouses served as a refuge for Manuel Rodriguez. At present, it is possible to visit the warehouses and the sales office of the winery which is located on the Panamericana South highway. CONCHA Y TORO WINERY It is located at 210 Virginia Subercaseaux St., Pirque. It is considered the biggest producer of fine wines for exportation. It was founded in 1883 by the Marquis of Casa y Concha, Don Melchor de Concha y Toro and Don Ramon Subercaseaux. The production has incremented with the impression of new vines and the construction of new storage facilities. At the end of the century, the park and the country mansion printed on the labels of some of the bottles, were designed and planted . It can be visited all year round in the following weekly hours: 10:30 to 13:00 hrs. and from 15:00 to 17:00hrs. On Saturdays from 15:00 to 18:00 hrs. and on Sundays and Holidays from 10:30 to 13:00 hrs . and from 15:00 to 18:00 hrs.
COUSIÑO MACUL WINERY It is located at the intersection of Quilin and Tobalaba avenues. It possesses the most beautiful park of the country. The primitive vines of Macul date back to the year 1554 and they were brought from Spain. The Cousiño Macul winery can be admired through the road that borders the warehouses and where the public can buy wine. The vines that were brought from Spain produced a variety of famous wines such as:" Don Matías " and " don Luis" among red wines and "Antigua Reserva" and " Doña Isidora" among white wines. Visiting Hours: is Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 12:30 hrs. and 14:00 to 17:00 hrs. Saturday from 08:30 to 11:00 hrs. This winery belongs to the Cousiño family since the middle of the 19th century and who did many innovations by changing the Spanish vines with ones brought from France
SANTA CAROLINA WINERY It is located at 1431 Rodrigo de Araya St., Santiago. Its wines are internationally recognized and has won many Honorary Medals in different international wine fairs. The warehouses of this winery have neoclassical characteristics and has superficies of approximately 4000 square meters. It presents an interesting complex from and architectural point of view. The winery can be visited by tourists, who walk round the installations and taste its wines which are aged in Chilean oak barrels. The construction of the warehouse was done at different stages: the first in 1877, the second in 1881 and the third in 1898. The construction is a continual of underground space with superficies designed as warehouses. At present, these buildings are still been used as warehouses for wine. It was declared a National Monument in 1973.
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