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Photo: Pablo Hernández Ormeño, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Am old mining town Lota that offers tours of an old coal mine.
Lota is a city and commune located in the center of Chile on the Gulf of Arauco, in the southern Concepción Province of the Biobío Region, 39 kilometres (24 mi) south of Concepción, and is one of the ten cities (communes) that constitutes the Concepción metropolitan area. The city is mostly known for being the traditional centre of coal mining in Chile, although mining ended in the 1990s.
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Bismarck Tower
A nice hike uphill on well maintained trails, through a eucalyptus forest. At the highest point of the Cerro Caracol there is a stone tower built in 1921 by the German community in Concepcíon as a tribute to the first chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck. On the way back you can either retrace your steps or walk north-east towards the University of Concepcíon.