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Welcome to the Quinta Vergara Though few realize the environment, the amphitheater where every year is the popular song festival is located in one of the areas most valuable heritage of Viña del Mar.
Vergara, with their gardens of various plant species, and the Venetian palace of the century, houses a museum, a school of fine arts and history of the family of the founder of the city. In the first half of the nineteenth century came to the Quinta Vergara Park, opposite the Plaza Sucre de Viña del Mar, the majority of alien species that can be seen today, brought by ship from East, Australia and California by a merchant family Alvarez , surname of the wife of the founder of the so-called garden City, Jose Francisco Vergara. His daughter Blanca Vergara Alvarez was the one who ordered the construction of the current Palacio Vergara, in place of the family home destroyed by the earthquake of 1906.
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The work, built 3,000 meters, by architect Ettore Petri Santini, and completed in 1910, responds to the prototype of an Italian villa in Venetian Gothic style, with the proviso that the bronzes, marble and stone materials are replaced by European light as the woods. Most of the furniture was purchased directly from Europe and he can see a variety of styles, the most attractive rococo, Louis XVI and Empire.
In 1941 the Municipality of Viña del Mar bought the building in the Park, which became public use, while the building was converted to the Museum and School of Fine Arts.
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On the first floor in the halls, the museum was installed, while the school was implemented on the top floor. The oil paintings were donated Vergara White had with the sale. 60 works of prominent European artists formed the basis of the collection. In the Museum of Fine Arts will exhibit precious works of European Baroque, including works by Peter Paul Rubens, Guido Reni and the Spanish impressionist paintings Joaquin Sorolla. In Chilean painting, you can learn an important phase of our artistic history, with works by Pedro Lira, Cosme San Martín, Alfredo Helsby, Juan Fco Gonzalez, Alberto Valenzuela Puelma, Benito Rebolledo Correa, Pedro Luna, Camilo Mori, Carlos Pedraza master of Arthur Gordon, founder of the School of Fine Arts in Viña del Mar. There is also a room dedicated to the founding family, where he keeps a portrait by French artist Raymond of Monvoisin, Mrs. Dolores Alvarez, who lived in the Quinta Vergara mid-nineteenth century. In the gardens of the park are several sculptures, among which the bust of Gabriela Mistral, made and donated by the artist Nina Anguita occasion of the Nobel Prize poet obtained at 1945. At its base reads a poem by Pablo Prado.
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