Chile Guide
El Norte Chico
Vicuña
VICUÑA, an hour by bus inland from La Serena, is a neat and tidy agricultural town laid out around a large, luxuriantly landscaped square. It's a pleasant, easy-going place with a few low-key attractions, a good choice of places to stay and eat, and a visitor-friendly observatory on its doorstep.
Life revolves firmly around the central plaza, which has at its centre a huge stone replica of the death mask of Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral, the Elqui Valley's most famous daughter.
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