The General Cemetery, a mystical place.

Santiago is very interesting, but there are places forgotten by many people, beautiful places with a great architecture, places like the "Cementerio General"(general cementery), I remember that the first time when I went, I only had five or six years and I went because my mother went with me.

It is an essential part of the country history, was created by Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna and who called it "Ciudad de los muertos" (city of the dead). Was inaugurated on November 1, in the all saint day, is located in the north of Santiago, near to the “Cerro Blanco” in Recoleta.

As I said before, we can find many types and manifestation of architecture, for example, a scale replica of the church of San Francisco, many pyramids with its sphinx and monuments that remember past presidents too. I like this place, because its silent and have many. The psychiatric hospital is near to the cemetery and the San Jose Hospital too, all this atmosphere is very extrange, the tales about the psychiatric patients say freak things, things like they run free at the cemetery at nights.

I go to to cemetery year by year, in the all saints day and in the anniversary of Violeta Parra, I walk arround the crypts and I think about the life.

It is great place really! =)