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234: 226: 211: 524: 46: 560: 294: 508: 290:—a gate used by Chilean presidents to enter the palace since the early 20th century. It was eliminated during the restoration of the palace as not being in the original plans, but was restored because of the heavy symbolism attached to it as being the gate through which Chilean Presidents entered La Moneda skipping the main's gate guard protocol or, in other words, as ordinary citizens of the country. It was also the gate through which the body of President Allende was taken out after the 1973 coup. 548: 472: 484: 536: 496: 203: 1064: 857: 991: 1025: 940: 957: 879: 1042: 974: 918: 1008: 896: 305:
ceremony takes place every two days on odd-numbered days in odd-numbered months, even-numbered days in even-numbered months, including Sundays, at 10 a.m. weekdays and 11 a.m. on weekends (as of June 2015). A formal ceremony dating back to the 1850s, it lasts about 30 minutes and includes a band
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to give the palace a facade to face the Alameda Avenue, the main street of Santiago. The project was designed by Josué Smith strictly following the design of the original construction. The three-floor annex was built using part of the original construction that was occupied until that date by the
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died in the palace at this time. Restoration projects of the damage caused were completed in March 1981, although some bullet marks have been preserved and can still be seen today. During the 1973–1980 restorations, an underground office complex (the so-called "bunker") was built under the front
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Designed by Undurraga Devés Arquitectos, the Plaza de la Ciudadanía has been called “one of the most important public works in the last century” by Chile's Plataforma Arquitectura website. Paths leading down from the plaza give access to the underground
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Behind this façade lie three patios: the Patio de los Cañones, which functions as an entrance hall; a covered patio; and finally the Patio de los Naranjos, where presidential ceremonies take place.
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Toesca died in 1799, before seeing his work finished, and military engineer Agustin Cavallero took over the project. The “Mint House of Santiago de Chile” finally opened in 1805.
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The building has been subject to several modifications throughout the years, made by different presidents. The last great restoration of the building was carried out after the
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influences. The building's wide, horizontal shape and rectangular composition conveys strength and stability, according to the palace's listing on the
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In 1940, a former mint pavilion, part of the original design of Toesca, was demolished to make way for the Patio de los Naranjos.
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Works on the building started in 1784, with building materials arriving the following year from around Chile and the world:
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website. Its main façade faces Moneda street, and its rooms are distributed along the transverse and longitudinal
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The architecture website ARQHYS.com states that the Palacio de la Moneda is “the only structure in the pure
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or “Alameda”. Construction began in May 2004 and the plaza was inaugurated in December 2005.
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To celebrate the bicentenary of Chile's independence in 2010, a new public square called the
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playing, troops with horses parading into the square, and much pomp and circumstance. The
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Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda – Plaza de la Ciudadanía/Undurraga Devés Arquitectos
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provides the guard unit and band for the ceremony, the guard unit being composed of a
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Palacio La Moneda Cultural Center will exhibit Latin American gold and silver artwork
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ARQHYS.com Architecture and Construction team, ARQHYS.com, retrieved 4 February 2013.
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strafed the palace with unguided rockets and automatic cannon fire. The president
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of the city during colonial times, was designed by the Italian architect
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David Basulto, Plataforma Arquitectura, retrieved 2 February 2013.
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The "blue room" where the president receives his or her visitors
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Military parade in front of the Palacio de La Moneda in 1944
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La Moneda pictured on September 11, 1973 after being bombed
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ThisisChile.cl, 31 May 2010, retrieved 4 February 2013.
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In 1929, an annex was commissioned the then President
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Palacio de la Moneda

Neoclassical
Santiago
Chile
Government of Chile
Joaquín Toesca
[paˈlasjoðelamoˈneða]
Mint
president
Republic of Chile
Interior
General Secretariat of the Government
Santiago
mint house
Joaquín Toesca


Recaredo Santos Tornero


Manuel Bulnes
Plaza de la Constitución
Gabriel González Videla
military coup d'état
Chilean Air Force
Salvador Allende
Augusto Pinochet
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Ricardo Lagos

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