Universidad de Chile (in

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: ''University of Chile'') station is a transfer station between the Line 1 and Line 3 of the

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. It is an underground station located between

La Moneda Palacio de La Moneda (, ''Palace of the Mint''), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the president of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency, and General Sec ...

and Santa Lucía stations on the same line. It is located at the junction of

Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins (), popularly known as La Alameda (meaning, a street bordered by poplar trees), is the main avenue of Santiago, Chile. It runs east–west in the centre of the greater urban area and is long, and it ...

, also known as "Alameda", and

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in the commune of

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. The Line 1 station was opened on 31 March 1977 as part of the extension of the line from La Moneda to

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. The Line 3 station was opened on 22 January 2019 as part of the inaugural section of the line, from Los Libertadores to Fernando Castillo Velasco.

Vicinity

The station is named after the

Universidad de Chile The University of Chile () is a public research university in Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the co ...

(University of Chile), whose oldest campus is located in the immediate vicinity. Other landmarks near the station include the

, a four-block pedestrian shopping street; the

Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, often shortened to Instituto Nacional (National Institute), is a public middle and high school in downtown Santiago, Chile which teaches 4.400 students between 7th and 12th grade. 170 teachers are ...

, or simply "Instituto Nacional", Chile's oldest and most prestigious school;

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, San Francisco Church, the

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La Moneda Palace Palacio de La Moneda (, ''Palace of the Mint''), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the president of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency, and General S ...

and the main headquarters of some of Chile's oldest banks.

Connections

There are seven

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bus stops in the streets above the station, and it is also developed into a transfer station for the Metro Line 3, which was completed by January 22, 2019.

Mural Memoria Visual de una Nación

Universidad de Chile Station features a 1200 square meter

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called "Memoria Visual de una Nación" (Visual Memory of a Nation), painted by Mario Toral, a Chilean painter and photographer. The mural is located in the platform area and its divided into two parts: "Pasado" (“Past”), finished in 1996, and "Present" (“Present”) finished in 1999. It shows fragments of Chile's history, from the violent Spanish conquest to the modern day. In 2011,

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named Universidad de Chile one of its "Subway stations worth getting off the train for", and in 2014, the BBC named it one of the seven most beautiful stations in the world.Plataforma Urbaba
Estación de metro U. de Chile es elegida entre las 7 más bonitas del mundo

References

Santiago Metro stations Railway stations in Chile opened in 1977 Santiago Metro Line 1 Santiago Metro Line 3 Railway stations at university and college campuses {{Santiago-geo-stub