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Villarrica

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The city is an important administrative urban center, with an urban and tourist equipment and a great historical and cultural value.

Less than 100 kilometers from Temuco, Villarrica is one of the cordillera urban center with beautiful attractions like its museums, the Cathedral, the Historical Zone of Villarrica and the mapuche legacy.

A little bit of history.

Founded in 1552 by Pedro de Valdivia, the city only was habitated five years later.

Villarrica was destroyed in 1602 by the mapuches. Until 1916, the city was not a commune as part of the Chilean Culture.

Some featured hotels in Villarrica

  • Resort Alto Villarrica

    This excellent complex is located in a beautiful zone, surrounded by nature and offers warm and cozy cabins and rooms, with the best equipment and excellent services. The cabins count with two bedrooms and capacity from two to six…

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    Resort Alto Villarrica

They recommend us

  • "Very nice guide ! Thank you for a very good service."

    June/2012

    Carol Nickless

  • "I found most everything about your service was first rate; especially the help I got from :Mariangel Andrade. She was very helpful and gracious and patient in answering all my questions and quick delivery…"

    April/2011

    Marion Purcelli

  • "The guide we had in Pucon, Alexandre Joly, is excellent. Very knowledgeable about history, traditions, geography, vegetation, animals, vulcanology and a very good narrator. We hope that all the guides…"

    June/2012

    Dan Marinescu

  • "The whole tripe was excelent, some guide were better than others, but in general very pleasant..."

    October/2011

    Claire Roussel

  • "Katherine Maggio was very helpful and responded quickly, thanks"

    March/2011

    John Gore

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