Universidad de Chile metro station

Universidad de Chile
Santiago Metro station

Universidad de Chile metro station
Location Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins / Paseo Ahumada
Coordinates 33°26′37.50″S 70°39′1.24″W / 33.4437500°S 70.6503444°WCoordinates: 33°26′37.50″S 70°39′1.24″W / 33.4437500°S 70.6503444°W
Owned by Metro S.A.
Line(s) Line 1
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections Transantiago buses
Construction
Structure type Underground
Platform levels 3
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened March 31, 1977
Electrified Central rail
Traffic
Passengers 60000 a day
Services
Preceding station   Santiago Metro   Following station
toward San Pablo
Line 1
toward Huechuraba
Line 3
under construction
Plaza Almagro
toward Hospital Militar

Universidad de Chile (in Spanish: University of Chile) station is a station in the Santiago Metro system of Santiago, Chile. It is an underground station located between La Moneda and Santa Lucía stations on the same line. It is located at the junction of Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, also known as "Alameda", and Paseo Ahumada in the commune of Santiago.

Vicinities

The station is named after the Universidad de Chile (University of Chile), whose oldest campus is located in the immediate vicinity. Other landmarks near the station include the Paseo Ahumada, a four-block pedestrian shopping street; the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, or simply "Instituto Nacional", Chile's oldest and most prestigious school; Barrio París-Londres, San Francisco Church, the Santiago Stock Exchange, La Moneda Palace and the main headquarters of some of Chile’s oldest banks.

Connections

There are seven Transantiago bus stops in the streets above the station, and it is also being developed into a transfer station for the new Metro Line 3, which is scheduled to be completed by 2018.[1]


The Mural from the platform

Mural Memoria Visual de una Nación


Universidad de Chile Station features a 1200 square meter mural 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, Lonely Planet named Universidad de Chile one of its "Subway stations worth getting off the train for",[2] and in 2014, the BBC named it one of the seven most beautiful stations in the world.[3]


References

  1. ↑ Nuevas Líneas 3 y 6 (ES) metro.cl november 26, 2013 retrieved on march 06, 2015
  2. ↑ Subway stations worth getting off the train for Lonely Planet, September 19, 2011, retrieved on March 06, 2015
  3. ↑ Plataforma Urbaba Estación de metro U. de Chile es elegida entre las 7 más bonitas del mundo