Meet your guide and begin at GAM, built in 1972 to host a United Nations conference on trade and development — a brief moment when Chile placed itself at the center of the global economic stage.

See how wealth from Chile's nitrate export boom funded this park and museum in the early 1900s, and hear how that windfall vanished almost as fast once synthetic nitrate was invented abroad.

Stand before the Belle Époque dome that has anchored Chile's financial markets since 1893.

End at La Moneda — literally "The Mint" — where Chile's first coins were struck in the 18th century, and later the stage for the free-market reforms that still define, and divide, the country's economy today.

Centro Cultural La Moneda sits underground, just steps from the palace itself, opened in 2006 as part of Chile's bicentennial-era wave of public investment — a physical marker of the same free-market growth cycle that built modern Santiago's skyline. Where La Moneda tells the story of coin and crisis, this space tells the story of what came after: a country channeling decades of economic growth into culture, exhibitions, and public life.