Qualla: La Moneda Palace https://qualla.com/la-moneda-palace en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/c/la-moneda-palace-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: La Moneda Palace https://qualla.com/la-moneda-palace La Moneda Palace: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-moneda-palace/ Photo credit user:JorgeGG, CC BY-SA 3.0. It was built to make money, quite literally. The long neoclassical block that fills an entire square in downtown Santiago began life as the royal mint, the place where colonial Chile struck its coins, which is why everyone simply calls it La Moneda. The name has outlasted its purpose by two centuries. The mint moved out long ago; the presidents moved in. And on the morning of September 11, 1973, this dignified white building became the target of its own air force, the only time in modern history a sitting government has bombed the palace at the heart of its own capital.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/c/la-moneda-palace-wp/66jc-la-moneda-palace-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Moneda Palace: A Mint Made of the Country Itself https://qualla.com/la-moneda-palace/ Photo credit She Paused 4 Thought, CC BY 2.0. The Italian architect Joaquín Toesca had already shaped much of colonial Santiago, including its metropolitan cathedral, when he was hired to design a new royal mint. Work began in 1784, and the materials read like an inventory of Chile assembled in one place: limestone from the ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/c/la-moneda-palace-wp/66jc-la-moneda-palace-a-mint-made-of-the-country-itself.mp3 0:06 2 full La Moneda Palace: The Eleventh of September https://qualla.com/la-moneda-palace/ Photo credit Miguel hernandez, CC BY-SA 2.0. On that spring morning in 1973, the armed forces moved to overthrow the elected government of Salvador Allende. As tanks and infantry surrounded the palace, Allende refused to surrender, delivering a final address over the airwaves of Radio Magallanes. "I will not resign," he tol...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/c/la-moneda-palace-wp/66jc-la-moneda-palace-the-eleventh-of-september.mp3 0:06 3 full La Moneda Palace: Rebuilt as a Symbol https://qualla.com/la-moneda-palace/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Alstradiaan~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. The fire and the rockets gutted large portions of the palace, and the dictatorship spent years restoring it. The reconstruction was not only architectural. Beneath the front square, engineers carved out an underground complex, a bunker built to shelter Pinochet from any future at...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/c/la-moneda-palace-wp/66jc-la-moneda-palace-rebuilt-as-a-symbol.mp3 0:06 4 full La Moneda Palace: A Living Palace https://qualla.com/la-moneda-palace/ Photo credit Ccox csc, CC BY-SA 3.0. La Moneda is no museum piece. It remains the working seat of the president of Chile and houses several cabinet ministries. Under President Ricardo Lagos the inner courtyards, with their orange trees and old cannons, were opened to the public during set hours, and Morandé 80 was r...

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