Things to see and do Bío-Bío Region

A kilometer south, leaving on Tucapel Street, is this natural swimming pool of 200 m and its water games. Pleasant in summer, with a few infrastructures (a discotheque, a restaurant and a camping) that should be enough for your entertainment!

Don't miss this new museum created in memory of mining activity. After closing the main deposits in the region, a group of former miners wanted to save coal activity in a cultural heritage. Thus was born this project an interactive museum, very informative, where the mining reoriented as guides. The circuit, which includes an underground gallery, replicates the real-scale experience of the working environment of minors.

This cave, famous in the region, is 20 m in diameter for 50 m deep and hosts the International Film Festival every year in February. The cave is named after the Chilean soldier Vicente Benavides who would have hidden a colossal war loot here in 1830. Legend assumes a treasure is still hidden here… If the heart tells you, you can pin the smallest corners of the cave in search of the famous magot, otherwise continue your path to the Playa Millaneco and its white sand bench.

This beautiful building, design and architecture rather modern, offers a spectacular panorama of Lake Lanalhue. Dedicated to tourist and cultural experiences, it hosts the Yepun Observatory which offers exciting astronomical tours: beyond modern astronomy, you will learn to appreciate the ancient science of the Mapuche. Then we discover another reading of the universe with the eyes of our ancestors… a sympathetic discovery.

Founded in 1835, this convent was the mother house of the Franciscan missions in the south. The region owes them about fifteen churches between Río Biueno and Chillán. The convent museum exhibits various ancient objects, including a incunable printed in Venice in 1495 and a tanagra, Greek terracotta figurine dating from before our age, and others, cultuels, such as chalices, th-as well as colonial furniture and a rich collection of images carved in wood… We can also see letters from O'Higgins, who was pupil of the Franciscans in his childhood.

Located at the west end of Calle Lantaro and five cuadras of the square, this small park and its water plan are an ideal resting place for the tired traveller.