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Neptune and Amphitrite, THE DIVINE LOVERS OF FINE ARTS DISTRICT

In recent years, a very particular fountain is located opposite the north exit of the Cerro Santa Lucia, where streets converge Subercaseaux Victoria and Santa Lucia Merced. It is the place where, until the end of colonial times, was a rock formation traversed by a stream derived from the Mapocho, which the English called the Alto del Puerto .

The source of Neptune and Amphitrite , To which we refer, is exactly the point where the old structure began natural, dynamited in the early nineteenth century. He is currently the site of today face off against two popular and historic buildings in the neighborhood: the Hotel Foresta (where the famous Don Rodrigo Bar) and "The Boat" Bauhaus architect Sergio Larraín. The pool water flows in a small central floe, almost on the edge with Merced Street.

Neptune or Poseidon was the classical god of the seas. Interestingly, it is another tribute plumber in the entire Cerro Santa Lucia, in the large fountain on access South. It was also his effigy in the Alameda de las Delicias, in a strong army across the street. According to myth, the god fell in love with a mermaid or sea nymph named Amphitrite or Salacia, who discovered one day dancing naked. Seduced her and asked her commitment, but she refused. So Neptune pleaded for a dolphin, managed to convince Amphitrite. Since then, there in heaven, in gratitude of God, the constellation of Dolphinus . That is, the Dolphin.

representations of happy couples and powerful ex Isten by thousands, mosaics, carvings, sculptures, paintings and ceramics. Has been portrayed by artists from the imagination of Greek and Roman classics to contemporary painting by teachers. The version that is reproduced next to Cerro Santa Lucia, however, correspond to the artist Mathurin Moreau shows two partially nude figures, taking a bath on the rocks of the ocean, as she shows him a few marine shells, in the middle position courtship.

According to the book "Art of the French foundry in Chile", published in 2005 by the Municipality of Santiago in conjunction with French experts of the Association for the Safeguarding and Metallurgical Heritage Area Haute-Marne, the work would have been cast in the famous Parisian company Val d'Osne , the same that provided the greatest number of parts that are inside the ride the hill. The same document indicates that our Neptune and Amphitrite originally belonged to a sculpture designed for a waterfall, and is portrayed in French foundry catalogs published by the end of the nineteenth century.

The statues of these deities came to Chile for ornamental furniture around called Campus Martius, later called Cousino Park, and Nowadays, O'Higgins Park. They remained there for the small pond installed near the entrance, in a situation somewhat exposed not only to the elements, but also the neglect of the mob, always available and tempted "Invunche" all that is beautiful but not belongs. There was damage on them, therefore.

Some sources of text and even the board itself installed on the whole, indicate that the statues he bought and donated to the city was the entrepreneur Matias Cousino. Harasses us a very reasonable question: who designed the renovated Campus Martius Park and paid his best in big companies in 1870, his son was also an entrepreneur and philanthropist Luis Cousino Squella, no Matias. Luis came to recruit the French landscape architect William Renner to produce a magnificent ride it was opened, ironically, the same year he died early this generous patrons. His father, Matthew, had died ten years earlier.

The Art of French smelter in Chile, "tells us that the donation is part of Don Luis and Don Matías not. Who would be wrong of Mr. Cousino, then, references to the statue Neptune and Amphitrite , if the information is fully available and would be easy to verify?

will leave there this observation, while, as we have found the sudden resistance from some people would consider more knowledgeable on the subject, ensuring that the board would be right to award the grant to Don Matias, causing some insecurity in some future posting solve more specific inquiry in this regard. Meanwhile, it can be established that correspond to these images, to works of the house Val d'Osne , surely are among some of the first pieces of the cast brought to Chile for public decoration.

should add that these two lovers now ocean-facing the Square Bello, appeared in 1915 portrayed the "Album of Santiago. Views of Chile Jorge S. Walton, published by the Society of Printing and lithograph Barcelona where the points are not as Neptune and Amphitrite, but as Adam and Eve . The same source indicated Matias Cousino, not Don Luis as the person who won both the park and statues for more confusion ours.

emphasize this information because never really had full confidence the identity of the sitters until after 1997, when French researchers contacted Chilean authorities confirming that corresponded to Neptune and Amphitrite , indeed, and not to other deities or characters of the world classic or the Bible.

But in the Parque O'Higgins ex Cousiño not had a good time these statues. As we said, were subject to damage and vandalism attacks, one on the shoulder of Neptune, forced to undergo restoration before being moved to its present location in April 2002, during the mayor Joaquin Lavin Infante, in agreement with the National Monuments Council. He joined the outbreak of water and lights that characterize his beautiful presence in the ever night called "port" of this neighborhood as nictófilo.

In these few years have become one of the most recognizable and distinctive images of Fine Arts District and surrounding areas.

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LEMON MOUSSE RASPBERRY CUPCAKES WITH VANILLA buttercream

Well, finally, my first blog entry with a recipe ... The truth is that many of the first recipes I have been pulling out of the kitchen blogs that I follow for a month or so ... Thus from the beginning I want to thank everyone s the great work you do, especially Bea, who has helped me a lot ... and has been patient with him that I am inquisitive.

this recipe I got from your blog, and what I learned with him, and all the things I missed in my London, for example, these famous cupcakes from Primrose Bakery, my next must-see London trip, I hope not take long to return ...

Bea As well aware in his blog, Primrose Bakery, is a bakery that is dedicated exclusively to cupcakes.

After the acknowledgments and introduction, a bit to tell where it comes from the following recipe, they say they are not so bad @ s is the first little things I do and with time everything gets better no?

first thing I did was go to an English supermarket, Iceland, where I caught these things for me to prepare the raspberry cupcakes, unlike Bea I directly bought the jam pot and I have not yet made any jam and do not want to risk so much the first time.

This was I bought ...

Once the ingredients at home, I got to the cupcakes ...

Ingredients for the dough: (for 12 cupcakes)

110 gr. unsalted butter at room temperature

180 gr. sugar

2 large eggs

125 gr. of flour screened yeast

120 gr. all-purpose flour sifted

125 ml. semi-skimmed milk at room temperature

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

3 tablespoons raspberry jam

Preparation:

first thing I did was to have prepared in different containers of ingredients with exact measurements. While the oven was preheating to 180 º. Following this prepared muffin tray with paper capacillos.

started with mixing, beat butter with sugar until it dissolves and get a creamy mixture (about 5 minutes or less). Add the eggs one by one mass.

Mix the two flours, and screened previously in another container. In another mixing the milk with the vanilla extract.

Then add a 3 rd part of the flour to the butter mixture and beat well. Add also Part 3 of the milk and extract. Repeat this until you have added all the flour and milk Abstract.

Then add 3 tablespoons of raspberry jam to the mix, without adding at all to remove all traces of the jam.

Pour the mixture into the capacillos, but only filling 2 / 3 of its capacity, bake for 20 to 25 minutes, but you have to go looking for if they go up and are golden brown, remove them.

We let cool 10 minutes on baking sheet and then passed to a grid.

Ingredients of Buttercream Vanilla :

110 gr. unsalted butter at room temperature

60 gr. semi-skimmed milk at room temperature

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

500 gr. sifted powdered sugar

Dye (optional)

Preparation:

We put in different containers and ingredients with exact measurements. Mix together butter, milk, vanilla extract and half the icing sugar, sifted and above, and whisk until a smooth mixture. Gradually add remaining icing sugar gradually until mixture is uniform. If you want to take dye, he would throw a few drops now and beat for another minute.

Decoration:

Bea in her blog , commented that when the cupcakes were completely cooled, with a sharp knife it would open a hole in the middle and you put a little jam. I did half and half and without the heart of raspberry (generally liked more who did not.)

Finally he will place the cupcakes, a layer of buttercream.

This was the result ...

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Palacios Ruiz-Tagle: SAVED THE MODERNITY OF MODERN

image Ruiz-Tagle Palace in the late nineties, when its destruction seemed imminent. Image courtesy Alan Bruna.

The current case of the beautiful palace that was the Ruiz-Tagle at the junction of Cathedral Street with Amunátegui, within walking distance of the Santa Ana Church, is quite an exception in the history of contemporary architecture, rarely gives the predatory instincts of the "modern -by-the-modern and many times opt for less conservation of old structures that gave identity urban Santiago, now severely threatened by this war low-level commercial and avant-garde architecture old architecture or heritage.

The result left everyone satisfied, We know, from a distance, the palace and its central tower may resemble a cat's feet crushed by a Jurassic monster. But it is certainly a more worthy end to the demolition for this beautiful palace of Santiago.

The original building was founded in 1924, and was born from the plans of architect Santiago Cruz Guzman. It has a stately style Republican and pro-European (French or English, I would not say with certainty because I find mixed opinions about it) with some neoclassical, endowed with abundant balcony balustrades and a high terrace to overlook in his tower. Inside were rooms and stairs marble. Despite the bulkiness of its lines and walls, internally good lighting had sought him fairly well distributed windows.

Ruiz-Tagle Palace has never been declared a National Historic Landmark. In the eighties was rented occasionally and from there a long time remained virtually abandoned, always closed. His first stories were used for shops with no aesthetic curtains at some point, were down forever. The last of the thick layers of paint was a blue-gray, very dull, which increased the sense of pitiful waste of the building.

The central tower of the palace before the construction of the adjacent building. Image courtesy of Alan Brenner, who also tells us the internal aspect was the site after visiting him in his youth: "I remember the entrance was round the house, the parquet floor all interlocked, toward the back crossing a solid framework is could see other environments, perhaps the inner rooms of the house, on both sides had marble staircase and brass railings round in shape along the lines of the entry, they ended up in an interior balcony overlooking the hall, which was connected with the main hallway, then I suppose I started, what were the inputs the bedrooms and services, but did not get up there, could be seen from this balcony a spider hanging lamp, guess bronze and aged for years, that their lights were just at that point. "

The palace after processing.

View of the building and the palace under construction. Source: magazine "Centro Santiago" by the Municipality of Santiago, No. 3 June 2006.

View from the opposite corner to Cathedral Street (West).

Hall access to the new building, just under the old.

Miraculously, however, the Max Real Estate Group decided to treat it as if it were a protected monument, when it acquired the land and began, in 2004, the construction of Grand Capital Building .

The project was designed by the architect Paul Gellona Vial, who reused the facade and the main structures of the palace, in the direction of Cathedral 1402. To this end, had to leave the assembly with reinforcing beams and scaffolding anchor behind the walls special of the facade, a state in this structure that was hit with an earthquake of this year, luckily for his longevity. Then he proceeded to seek some form of integration of two such different styles on the block: that of the old house and the new building of 25 floors and 320 apartments. The spacious hall after access to the condo is in what corresponded to the atrium lounge of the old palace, for example.

The appeal of keeping historic facades for new buildings that grow on their backs, is a longstanding procedure in Europe and more recently in America. Here in Chile there are many examples of this, although they tend increasingly appear: one is the Hotel Diego de Almagro, the Alameda Bernardo O'Higgins, one is the former General Public Prison Mackenna or the courts that are found there too, on Calle San Martín. As did the Majestic Hotel, near the palace that distracts us. The former offices of El Mercurio of Santiago on Calle Company, however, until recently still hoping someone will take pity and finally decided to use the same procedure of building investors Max Real Estate Group and Engineering and Construction Ingevec Ruiz-Tagle Palace.

And although it is clear that many were unhappy with this solution, we insist that it is a lesser evil to the main option: the tragedy of the great architectural works of Santiago is that in the absence of any radical policy of subsidy or provision of heritage preservation will always be more expensive cast down and build on top.

worth remembering that private companies seek profit, and no historic preservation is not a business for anyone, so we are obviously facing a precarious state and the current policy of preserving the national heritage from some point of view of profitability or sustainability. It is valuable to make this kind of considerations in an environment hostile to the ancient architectural conservation, therefore. Proof of this is that there is now discussion about the famous and historic building of the Confederation of Workers in Alameda, where the owners are promoting their destruction tempted with the same thirst for profit against saying this fight so fervently union body.

The Capital Grand building was opened in 2006. The facade of the Palacio Ruiz-Tagle, who is now the principal of the condominium, was repaired and restored beautifully with all the interventions described and more delicate and artistic in his forehead, entrusted to the teachers masonry.

Except for some small details in the coating and the bloody bombings of aspiring graffiti generally keeps its good appearance and elegance, surprising for better or for worse to visitors, at least, you can still contemplating without having to jump-start the memory to try to remember what he had earlier in the same corner.

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Tour 2009 ... Scotland and London

day I keep getting this, now tell the journey of 2009 with the girls (Oli, Yurena, Monse, Taida and I), initially we were not sure where to go but it was clear that London had to happen, and stung by the bug me (like now ...), that could bind another travel destination ... Scotland! Well chosen! We spent a few days touring Scotland and a few days Londres.Para save some money, decided to take the plane directly to London and back and then take the first day a bus to Edinburgh. Yes, it was a suckling pig, and 7 hours by bus, but had to decide what was best for the monetary fund some of the group.

Whereupon the July 28 evening, and a mask for influenza A in the pocket (my mom who despairs), we took the plane for Gatwick and then the Gatwick Express to Victoria Station to go to Victoria Coach Station, located directly opposite, to catch the bus to Edinburgh, yes, then for us to take something at Starbucks for breakfast.

Once we got to Edinburgh the next day we took a taxi to the hostel, mostly because the luggage we had. The hostel was chosen castlerock , we really liked, was just below Edinburgh Castle, rooms, bathrooms and breakfast very good. Recommended, yes, we share the room and bathroom with other girls, but all good, there was no problem. That day, we only see a little area and have some dinner, since we were KO and needed to sleep for the next day to start with force.

Thursday 30 after breakfast at Starbucks, we decided to do a free tour with English people is done in different cities of Europe, the issue is that you make the tour of the city, yes walk, and finally tour of the boy / to English / to give you what you consider to be worthy of the tour, is pretty good and quite funny as well There are different tours in the same city, I leave the link neweuropetours It seemed okay the first day in order to position ourselves a little in the city and then travel over our cuenta.El tour took us all morning and ended with some we wanted to go to lunch together. After lunch, we decided to tour these sites that interested us more and we had not enjoyed at all by the short time we had. We saw the Edinburgh Castle, St. Giles' Cathedral, The Royal Mile, Mercat Cross, Greyfriars Kirkyard (cemetery) and Greyfriars Bobby, Scott Monument, Princes Street Gardens, Grassmarket, the originals "Hogwarts" Harry Potter, Covenanter's Prison, Victoria Street ...

And of course as we liked the tour, we went to the hotel to change and went back to the ghost tour at night with the same English guy who led us in the morning.

This time we visited, Calton Hill, The Old Calton Cemetery (which almost gives me something of fear in the cemetery and tell stories of ghosts, I say good ...), we were stopping at different places in Edinburgh there we were telling stories, ended up in a pub taking a pint of the tour you are invited.

By July 31 we had hired a tour, which we liked for everything we saw, but not by the company you hired, but of course none wanted to drive and wanted to know more than Edinburgh, so I will not link because I do not recommend it but if it is true that in the hostel we stayed out a tour in the same place we were going and some English girls told us that was pretty good. That day saw

Forth Bridges, Dunkeld, Hermitage Forest, Key clains, Culloden, Loch Ness (we were to see if we saw Nessy but no luck ...), and before going to the hostel we saw the Eilean Donan Castle, beautiful !

Day August 1, and on the Isle of Skye, we got up and visited Talisker Beach, Waterness Cemetery, climbed the Old Man of Storr (uff ... almost did not get to the top three of which we were ...) and Glen Garry.

Last day of the tour, we went to the cemetery Rob Roy's Grave, the old kirk, Glen Navis, we saw highland cow, Glencoe, Castle William Wallace (which I could not climb seeing as there was a small little problem) and then heading to Edinburgh again, where we went to dinner and rest at the same hostel in the early days.

For the next two days were our last days Edinburgh ... After breakfast, Yurena and I have to visit what remains to be seen in the city, with it went to the National Museum of Scotland (from the roof are good views of the city), shops including Disney who seemed little girls, as we like! the camera obscura, Edinburgh Castle, to Calton Hill for a full view of the city, and day 4 afternoon - night drink in a pub to say goodbye to the city, and that same night we returned by bus London ... my London ...

after arrival to London and get comfortable in the hostel in Bayswater, Hyde Smart Park Inn , we had a shared room for 6 and a shared bathroom on the ground, which we did not like was that we had on the top floor and no elevator and having to pack up all those stairs steep ... pfff ... I did not care much, was back in London!

After recharging my Oyster card (rechargeable meters), do not stop to walk around, Big Ben, London Eye, Westminster Abbey, St. James Park, Buckingham Palace, ...

Day 6 still touring London, British Museum, St. Paul Cathedral, London's Millennium Bridge, Tower of London, London Bridge and to end the day we went to Covent Garden for a drink in one of the terraces and some comprita.

The next day we went to Harrods, to look, I love the Christmas area! Hyde Park, Marble Arch, Oxford Street (shopping ... playing my Disney superstore), Hamleys (toy store enooooorme), Piccadilly Circus, the National Gallery, Chinatown, we ate in the area and we had a drink in a bar with a Yurena friend who was living in London.
On Saturday 8 is dedicated to shopping and clear advantage for the two markets this super familiar sights, Portobello and Camden Town ... I love! This day was that I liked the trip ... on 9 sadly came to an end ...

And since then I return to my dream city ... I hope to return soon to tell ...

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RENAN VALDES: THE CHRONICLE OF A CENTURY ALL

Afternoon we learned of the death of Gottfried von Bennewitz Renan Valdés, which occurred on July 9 ... Too late I know, when its fragility and depletion of 86 calendar life and resting in a modest grave, on land that now houses his eternal rest in a humble courtyard of the General Cemetery. The iron laws of biological life don Renan forced to abandon in this sailing adventure through the world created and uncreated, what we call existence .

We extinguished it, therefore, a brilliant generation of the twentieth century, and suddenly cut a golden thread that has linked yours to ours. From now on, we marched with their own memories and rendered somewhat adrift, without the convenience of having a guide time.

Renan was a tremendous journalist, columnist opinion and a reporter who spent 70 years of longevity in this career information in the media. Still in his later years was pituto and assuming small odd jobs in between. Writer, journalist and political leader who ran, in fact, be a deputy in 1967 by the first district of Santiago, with the slogan "A candidate for the people" , after being proclaimed in the popular Princess Theatre Recoleta, the same home of the famous spectacle of "Picaresque" and other magazines.

early in nationalism, passed through a synthesis of all the political movements of his century: Creole National Socialism, the popular avant-garde Socialist Labour agro-Guillermo Izquierdo Araya, IBAN (I hate writing with the "s" because the name was Ibañez), the National Democratic Party and the Christian Democrats. "I have come to the conclusion that politics is the only way to live without working" , sentenced often half-jokingly and half seriously, she remembered the adventures and experiences in the arenas of deliberation.

was a man who hobnobbed with juces, ministers and great goberantes, which the President Eduardo Frei he wrote "Dear friend" in his letters ... He saw their comrades die in the attempt of September 5, 1938, where they were massacred.

Man who confronted from his column in the newspaper's own President González Videla, earning a holiday in prison for his audacity to rebuke the president's betrayal to the same communist forces that had led to his vote into power; and even when Valdes was then an avowed Marxist. And then write a social novel entitled "Jail", inspired by their experience inside the prison where he paid his daring political ...

The same man who, despite their proximity to the old Ibanez did not hesitate in pointing to the military illustrious Carlos Ibáñez del Campo marking it as one of the default responsible for the slaughter of 1938, earning the scorn of many of his coreligionists by the grace ...

Or the man who later also faced General Augusto Pinochet himself in the Diego Portales building, in the military regime, criticizing the raids popular neighborhoods considered "exaggerated" , and getting with it now, a dismissal from their place of work, however, that would give the same agent, then the board of grace that allowed Mr. Renan live with minimal dignity in their later years, or sometimes even without them.

Knowing your file, in August 2009.

presentation of his column in the sixties.

Valdés The young and old was, well, a total man of principle, an individual right, honorable, unobjectionable, dominated by a sense of what is ethically correct ... Or rather betrayed by the instinct of morality and propriety. And as every man of strong principles, unable to adapt to the moral relativism of our society, ended up being also a man of problems: gaps, voids, even the victim of slander or heinous betrayals.

This fidelity to ethics would be one of their sentences, precisely, making it worthy of ninguneo, disdain and anonymity, despite the enormous work that supports their name. Poorly chosen, perhaps, to look at electoral politics vile, filthy and pimp vernacular, any discharge their straightness and ideals honest.

This lucid witness to a century was born in 1923 as the illegitimate son of a temporary connection between a largely absent father and a distant mother, who did not know himself until his youth. He was the brother of a famous national singer, also died. After the death of his grandmother, who actually grew up with an aunt, went into life as a writer and journalist, reaping the first successes early on, when barely out of high school.

Living in boarding houses and hotels with low reputation, Renan was allowed full-time writing amounts of leaves on the old typewriter he held until his last days as a symbol of his career. Graphomania suffered from incredible, but for some reason insisted on only some of his works to be published in newspapers or end up in printers. Often worked for free, in fact, motivated only by their ideals and the sense of responsibility exercised by the office in the tabloids. Its huge archive met only some parts of this true individual writing industry, much of which (perhaps most) and is irretrievably lost.

Renan had a special attraction Mapocho neighborhoods and La Chimba, especially from the time it was established in the River North district. Although not drink, maintained some relationship with the social life of those places, so far as walking with his felt hat and mustache Characteristically, he used a lifetime.

was over there he established his home in Olive Street. I used to go for a walk from there throughout the neighborhood, sometimes Mapocho Station, Central Market or the other way, at the General Cemetery and the Plaza de Avenida La Paz. Walks, on other occasions, passed by the former Labor Insurance Tower, where he would stop to watch silently the list of his young comrades killed there, for which extended many honors and awards in the press. Even in Marcoleta ever find him, always offering lively and entertaining conversations based primarily on his inexhaustible Battery memories. Renan

Valdes wrote for "The Mercury", "The Illustrated Journal" and the Journal of the PDI, had a column under his name in the newspaper "The Torch" from San Felipe and, of course, he also served as young woman in "The Work", official journal of the National Socialist movement that had belonged at the time of momentum and force.

And those who believe that these links so politically incorrect he took their part, do not err, but had direct access to La Moneda and photographed with presidents, the lone Renan was the subject of hateful accusations on the one hand, some downright evil; and the disdain of some fellow in his own trenches, on the other, not forgiven him for having denied the inspiration European Nazi-fascist National Socialist movement native.

But he had an explanation for everything: everything is the result of another, and always for the better ... Even when trying to remember their comrades killed in the Tower Blood:

"Chile and his men have performed well in these last twenty five years " he wrote in his column, on the anniversary of 1963 - , and the institutional, progress has been made possible without resorting to violence. Moreover, the terrible outcome of the revolution now, obligate us, to be more cautious and aware and quietly ponder the pros and cons of each political act. "

In the same philosophy of spiritual evolution asserted, for example, that life away from the vices he had secured it so long it had been. The cost of this was painful to see the death of his wife and daughter. There was a time when smoking, including pipes, but had a laughing explanation for this habit:

- "my doctor said it was for something aesthetic, against ugliness ... As the smoke I can not see his face. "

also wrote books, almost unknown at this time, so we have no assurance of how many were exactly. Not even he was sure, sometimes. One of them met two of his stories with three other well-known authors, among which is an important judge of our days. And for those same years when I was expelled from the Diego Portales Building Pinochet for having faced the horror of everyone else present, Valdés prefaced the work of his good friend Juan Pérez Berrocal "My life and the theater: 1912-1981" who had been one of the precursors national cinema. There are other works of yours coming out of printing and binding, but are now almost disappeared, which lost scrolls of Qumran in the valley of the Mapocho.

His talent for getting into trouble was the long and loyal life partner, was about 75 when he worked as a correspondent for half, at the height of Pinochet's captivity in London, and had the terrible idea to get amid a crowd of protesters with their body physically very weak and fragile, trying to get statements. In shock, the mob came upon him on the floor ended with a broken hip in 1999 that kept him mired in interventions treatments and condemned the use of the cane which reduced his walks, but not their desires. He barely and grudgingly ignored the instructions of rest. But somehow managed to overcome and not only to recover his walks through the neighborhoods of Santiago classical and popular, but could also break away from challenging the medical staff.

"Dear friend", says the President Frei.

In general cemetery with the writer, in March 2009.

was returning, so the cemetery. Walking on the graves of their loved ones, or the monolith in homage to their comrades killed this afternoon in the tragic building Workers' Compensation. There he met by chance one day last year, near the mausoleum of the English Benevolent Society, after visiting the grave of his beloved wife

- "I go walking in here to start getting used to this neighborhood, the I'll have to change course as friend always said to laughter taking his own misfortunes, and their vulnerabilities. Never ceased to be so happy.

Renan lived in absolute austerity. Their economic, his modesty and his shortcomings contrasted with the warmth with which we received at home to show us a cup of coffee with his wonderful archive, such as large and full of photographs, newspaper clippings, articles, letters and memos, that the life of portrayed itself turns out to be also a reflection of the era to which he belonged; of age from the loss.

But the octogenarian journalist accepted no help, no one seemed interested in him out of this sad decline. Did not even seem comfortable with the photographs or tape recorders. Instead, turn on immediately with the talks, with the interest in listening, to hear his jokes, cleverly tucked between the stories of their endless memories, memories of an entire century.

convince wanted to spread his books, to republish, to sell their goods and transcribe them. But Renan did not want recognition. Somehow, without telling us, perhaps expected to understand that their time had passed, and that anonymity, passing unnoticed as a stranger walks into the river or to the necropolis treading the rubble of his own personal history, were what accommodated him. There was no way out of this darkness, accordingly. On the contrary, the writer usually end up being who gave us one of his innumerable contacts and access to certain circles to help accelerate or comply with formalities. It was his way of being useful in the sad anonymity, to revive the importance of the past, when perhaps it was praised and recognized. Almost prayed that someone should ask these kinds of favors, as if he needed to prove he could still be useful, as set in motion the gears of a run and dusting mechanism, which has remained in the oblivion of the cobwebs, but he feels in his chest you can still go again. Renan

always seemed in good health and, as we said, even bragged about his fitness at age 86. But the final appointment with death caught him inevitably the morning of July 9, when a light beam thrown from somewhere in across from the threshold reached his heart, glaring while combing the hair of his head low in the mirror. Renan

Valdés von Bennewitz, thus, left the world and forgotten by the national newspaper, with his books almost unknown and his name ignored by most media. No mention in any newspaper ... Nothing, not a line, as if Valdes were already dead before he died. We saw was not even published an obituary. It was the state that he already knew its existence, perhaps, and therefore never was enthusiastic about our desire to return to light.

In the era of digital communication and instant transmission, all those who were his disciples and friends, we learned of his surprise death almost by chance, by the sheer speed of gossip, and after attempting the fortuitous event visit to complete an interview with him will remain pending forever as open circle for all rounds of eternity and recurrence, we now know.

But Renan is comfort in knowing that their friends and comrades of his youth. If it is in Heaven or a symbol, it does not matter. There it is: the same things again ones who had lost in the bloody event 72 years ago, and where there was also a part of him died. Returns with his own family, that it was gone.

There, in memory of those who were and those that follow, the book you will remember Don Renan his own consecration as timeless and luminous than a difficult life and sacrificed for the ideals denied.

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100 YEARS OF AVIATION FEAT: Copette CAESAR AND HIS HISTORIC FIRST FLIGHT ON THE FARM FARM CHILE VALPARAISO

(Source image: Postcard from a private collection).

On 17 December this year will mark 107 years of the first recorded airplane flight in history, after two mechanics of a bicycle shop, the famous brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, achieved ground up and for some moments of self-propelled ship that opened the way to global aviation successfully and pass the roller over the doomsayers academicians who were proclaiming that anything heavier than air could take flight. I was Flyer , Also called Kitty Hawk and Wright Flyer. Curiously, this plane is in the proud original exhibition in the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum , in circumstances that the Smithsonian was one of the organisms from which more heavily defended the dogma about the inability of blowing machines, even to expel Professor Langley for disagreeing with this idea.

In turn, this year marks a century since the first domestic flight, performed by the aviator César Copette the August 21, 1910, in a plain area of \u200b\u200bProvidencia, which then was an area in the rural outskirts of the city of Santiago.

As can be calculated, this flight pioneer in Chilean aviation history happened just seven years after the Wrights had made and spent only four years of experience of the Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumont with the hoist in the air epic French 14-bis, 23 October 1906, first flight take-off itself without external propulsion mechanisms of departure.

In 2003, the centennial of the Wright brothers' flight, was held in Santiago de Chile a series of talks organized by the Center Lircay Historical Studies in units of the Providence Club and the University Aula Magna of Bernardo O'Higgins, entitled "Evocation of the great global aviation pioneer José Luis Sánchez Besa, and national aviation pioneers." Participated in these interesting days descendants of Chilean aviation pioneers, the National Museum of Air and Space and the Circle of Friends of Cultural Heritage of Chile. There I had the opportunity to meet children of Luis Omar Page and Dagoberto Godoy, while confirming the importance that Chileans were the pioneers of aviation with respect to the international history of the conquest of the sky, as was portrayed also a special on the global aviation cultural channel Discovery Channel, also on the anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight.

Well, one of the names that were praised during these talks was that of Caesar Copette Brossier, who devote this posting because of the importance of the dates this year are celebrating the centenary of his brave deed aviation industry which almost coincides in timing with the Bicentennial whose central date is approaching.

Amid this same obsession bicentennial, however, have been rather few references to this important episode of our history. Except for cases like a series of exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts last year, the greatness of the Chilean aviation pioneer has not had the deserved recognition of other cultural institutions or other areas have been covered with enough slack in these months ( not to mention soccer). In fact, be celebrating the bicentennial with historic Los Cerrillos Airport (the same one where Copette died also) sadly dismantled for an eccentric mega real estate, real attack on the Chilean civil aviation, largely reflects the apathy with which still looking at this important stage in Chile written for international aviation.

César Copette Brossier (Source image: exposure "Evocation of the great global aviation pioneer José Luis Sánchez Besa, and national aviation pioneers" of the Centre for Historical Studies Lircay).

FIRST FLIGHT SEARCH OF CHILEAN

fever by blowing machines heavier than air, had arrived early to Chile. In 1909, for example, the German mechanical Bischkus Max had built a crude and heavy winged object with a 15 HP engine, mounted on a structure about 15 feet from where it would be dropped to make its maiden flight in the Parque Cousino in Santiago. For several days, attracted the curious generating excitement and uncertainty, because many volunteers had helped to finance such a strange business.

happened, however, the same day that the plane was going to be tested, a wing dawn destroyed, perhaps by the action of anonymous hands. It is believed, however, that the Bischkus gadget ever could have taken flight because it did not fit or the rudimentary knowledge of aerodynamics of those years.

Still, pending issue of a flight had been installed in Chilean society. And if the global aviation pioneers were two brothers gringos with a workshop, here in Chile were the brothers Felix and Cesar Copette which, even from his own workshop began to think about getting the deed to the business projections you might have for them. Oreste Plath notes that, as was the case of Wright, the Chilean aviation pioneers were also related to the repair of bicycles and cycling, as Copette, Luis Alberto Acevedo and Dagoberto Godoy. The aircraft is perhaps the result of the development of more bicycle that other means of transport.

This repair shop of the brothers, sons of a French family, was located in Calle Ejercito Libertador 755, and there are dedicated to provide maintenance and support cars for newly arrived in Chile. There was still this place by mid-century, named "Garage Copette" according to a text by Enrique Flores in "Aviation History of Chile", 1950.

concurred that two young Chilean entrepreneurs David Echevarria and Miguel Covarrubias, had returned from France carrying a biplane recently acquired the Voisin wood, metal and gender, with a Gnome motor 50 HP. The idea of \u200b\u200bboth was that Chile could celebrate the centenary with a flight of aircraft including, falling into the hands of the Copette realize this adventure.

Copette brothers and their assistants, skilled in mechanics, managed to set it up on a farm in the commune of Providencia, relatively close to the actual Plaza Egaña, almost no public attention, and without the international publicity that other pioneers had sought about their exploits, even before being made.

Museum Photo Archive Aeronautical taken on August 20, 1910, one before the first flight in the farm Chacra Valparaíso. Observed at the center of the aircraft owner Don Voisin David Echeverría, right Copette siblings and left behind Beltran Gabriel Tisné and Robin.

Caesar Cartoon Copette celebrating its flight. (Source image: exposure "Evocation of the great global aviation pioneer José Luis Sánchez Besa, and national aviation pioneers" of the Centre for Historical Studies Lircay)

Copette 's feat

Aided by his colleagues and friends, Copette arrived that afternoon to make final inspections of their aircraft. Young man, very thin, big nose and long whiskers, looked more like a boy trying to prove some of their new bikes and not an expensive flight equipment, the best, could turn his life into a myth and, the worst, take it away tragically.

The plane light appearance and hybrid forms between a dragonfly and a large bird, was against a plain or pasture in the Chacra Valparaíso farm of 240 acres venue chosen for the flight. property belonged to Mrs. Eloisa María de la Cruz, who leased it to Don Ramon Cruz Montt, illustrious neighbor sector that gave its name to the surrounding street that passes for the former field.

Don David Echeverria remained oblivious to the preparations for the feat that was to be with his airplane, working with adventurous. Copette Caesar also had the assistance of his brother, who was present, and the technical team consisting of mechanical Beltran Gabriel Tisné and Robin, all the anxiety that would participate in a historic milestone that would legend.

They few curious addition to those named, but with cameras to record. To everyone's amazement, however, got Copette: mark the day August 21, 1910 as one in the beginning of the national aviation history, just missing a little over a month for the big celebration of the First Centennial of the Republic.

So Chileans and flew to celebrate our first century of independence.

is not clear how Copette flew, but most sources say it was around 10 meters. Flight tests must not have been extended more than a few minutes. The story of a witness the flight, which is reproduced by the historian and writer Alfonso Calderon in his excellent essay, "When 100 years old Chile", reads as follows:

"His great white wings, tail , its keel, made him look like a giant bird's full. At bottom, the famous Gnome motor and on the ground the chassis of aterrissage magnificent lines completed device. "

The news swelled with pride and national sentiment Copette, with its look gullible and somewhat ungainly appearance, became a celebrity, appearing caricatures portrayed in various news media.

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flight in the former estate Chacra Valparaíso. (Source image: exposure "Evocation of the great global aviation pioneer José Luis Sánchez Besa, and national aviation pioneers" of the Centre for Historical Studies Lircay)

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an old pisco elquino 1915. Is it a tribute to Copette or another of the national aviation pioneers? (Image Source: Private collection).

AFTER LANDMARK

After the episode of self and self-advocate young airman, Copette began to be called "Don Caesar" within the nascent aviation environment, in recognition of its prestige. He passionately continued to develop these technologies, when his brother returned to the workshops to produce their own models of aircraft for commercial purposes. Followed with some more tests in the farm Chacra Valparaíso, reaching create the model Batuco , first to meet the requirements to get on a plane formed to imitate or surpass the achievement of previous and in which Luis Omar Page also inscribe his own feat in the history of aviation.

Meanwhile, other pioneers followed the trail with its own milestones in the domestic and international aviation, as Bartholomew Cattaneo, Luis Alberto Acevedo, Eduardo Molina Clodomiro Figueroa and, in fact, made his famous flight in the aircraft Burrito , also built in the workshop of the Copette in 1912. Acevedo, in turn, is advised by your mechanic Frenchman Pierre Coemme for their flights on the Bleriot maintaining armed and waiting in the Parque Cousino, the same year. Death overtook him, however, in an attempt to unite on a flight Santiago to Concepcion, a fateful April 13, 1913, becoming the first martyr of the brand new Chilean aviation history. Tragic fate that was also the famous Lieutenant Alejandro Silva Bello, the "lost" Lieutenant Bennett, who disappeared on March 9, 1914 trying to unite the forest with Cartagena. Were the costs that the risk of these new technologies earned the most courageous and bold.

Amid this by aviation boom, created the Aero Club of Chile, on March 29, 1913. The line of development among the civilian heroes and military heroes of aviation was becoming more subdued in this period of infancy. Attention and progress generated by these events led to Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez to create in 1928, the Aero Club of Chile and the following year Línea Aeropostal Santiago-Arica which, when extended to Puerto Montt and Aysen, gave rise to the National Airline. The success of the visionary decisions Merino Benitez succeeded, in 1930, the creation of Chile's Air Force and the Bureau of Aeronautics, the current Civil Aviation Directorate.

Unfortunately, César Copette died tragically when he saw consolidated domestic aviation on Sunday 27 October 1940. Individual flights had become their regular means of transport and taking off early to the Cerrillos eropuerto in his old ship Morane Parasol, she began to have problems raining down on the area of \u200b\u200baccess to the air base. He was rushed to the Post 3 of Public Assistance, but got over the severe injuries, leaving this world with his final flight, the last of all.

was buried in the mausoleum of the French Society of General Cemetery and erected a monument in his memory at the place where he lost his life, a tribute to years later disappeared or was removed.

César Copette Clodomiro Figueroa and Henry French mechanical Goudou, along with the "Valparaiso", in The Mirror, in 1913. (Source image: exposure "Evocation of the great global aviation pioneer José Luis Sánchez Besa, and national aviation pioneers" of the Centre for Historical Studies Lircay).

Luis Omar Page on a plane "Batucada" by Copette built in 1914. (Source image: exposure "Evocation of the great global aviation pioneer José Luis Sánchez Besa, and national aviation pioneers" of the Centre for Historical Studies Lircay).

THE HISTORICAL FARM IN THE NEWS

After Copette epic flight, he founded Chacra Valparaíso remained in the hands of Eloisa Dona Maria de la Cruz and administered by Ramon Cruz. He remained at large as a productive land with agricultural workers, as Ñuñoa in those years was still a rural area only partially urbanized.

In the "Album of the Area Central de Chile. Agricultural information ", 1923, he founded Chacra Valparaíso listed as a major producer of alfalfa and potatoes, plus a prestigious and award-winning Dutch-bred cattle, milk production traded in Santiago. The land would have counted too, until his death, a breeding of plants and flowers fine, plus fruit trees, with comfortable cabins for visitors and passengers. with these characteristics are maintained until about the fifties, when the city changes defintivamente reached.

followed Chacra Valparaíso being surrounded by urbanization over the years, and now his most recognizable part of the original in the field of Irarrázaval to Ramon Cruz. One of the streets that corresponded to their land still retains the name of Valparaiso, on the east side of it.

Since 1968, the most important sector kept the former estate was converted into a spacious plaza dubbed Park Ramon Cruz, constituting one of the outdoor recreation major avenue known Irarrázaval after bohemian Plaza and Plaza Ñuñoa Egaña, more identified with the trade. It should be noted that the park was opened along with the Villa Frei, the same year, by President Eduardo Frei, former farm because everything had been entirely altered by the new landscaping plan considering urban and residential areas.

Ramon Cruz Park is recognizable since then the large trees and palms. It was expanded in 1981, but coexisting peacefully in their boundaries with the Villa Frei. There seems to be competition between its green areas, totaling nearly 40 thousand square meters, and residential areas surrounding it. It is a quiet place where neighbors often leave their children to entertain at various playgrounds have been installed there.

Vista current ex farm, Ramón Cruz Park today.

View from the North of the green areas of the park.

monolith FEAT IN THE PARK

Fortunately, it has not been forgotten in this place the significance of this historic site with the events of 1910. For this reason, a polished stone monolith commemorating the feat of Copette was installed there in the corner of the park, on the corner of Ramon Cruz Irarrázaval by the Aeronautical Research Institute of Chile on the anniversary of August 21, 1985. Of note is the ongoing effort that has made both the Institute and the National Aeronautical Museum to preserve the memory and the memory of this epic, and a handful of other institutions.

immortalizing such an event, says the text engraved on the stone plaque placed on Park Ramon Cruz:

"FROM THIS PLACE IN THE AFTERNOON OF AUGUST 21, 1910 ROSE FOR THE FIRST TIME AN AIRPLANE IN CHILE Piloted by DON CESAR Copette Brossier "

do not know what happened to the original plate stone monolith that had this inscription, but on the anniversary of May 21, 1997 was appended a new larger, which retrieves the message from above but below added a new greeting to the memory of Copette and the first domestic flight, this time by the Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics:

"IN RECOGNITION ACHIEVED BY THE PILOT FEAT DON CESAR Copette Brossier THE GOVERNMENT OF CHILE BY DS N º 330 OF 22 FEB 1997 INSTITUTED THE ANNIVERSARY DATE OF THIS FEAT AS OFFICIAL DAY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION.

Every year on the anniversary of flight, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Aviation Technical School, the Institute Aviation Historical Research of Chile and the municipal authorities made there in the monolith of the park a gathering in memory of these key pages of the Chilean aviation history.

ex founded Monolith Memorial Chacra Valparaíso.