Palacio Cousiño

This opulent mansion in central Santiago was built in the 1870s for one of Chile's wealthiest mining families, showcasing the fortunes generated by silver and coal. Its lavishly furnished rooms feature imported marble, Baccarat crystal, silk wallpaper and one of the first residential elevators in the country. Landscaped gardens surround the neoclassical building. Later used to host visiting heads of state, it now operates as a house-museum illustrating the tastes of the nineteenth-century elite.