3. Chilean territory as space of memory.
Historically, the topography of specific sites, functioning as leaky granaries of recorded time, has traces and signs to preserve and decipher . Estadio Nacional De Chile was built between 1937 and 1938 . The inspiration, for the team of Chilean architects that formed it, was the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The ceremonial opening of the building took place on December 3, 1938. . This event was accompanied by a football match between Chilean Colo Colo and the Brazilian team Sao Christovao, won by the Chilean 6-2 . Over the course of time, a dozen or so global sporting events took place at the stadium, including the 1953 World Women's Volleyball World Championship, the Men's Volleyball World
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The firing of the palace, mentioned day, began at 8:30 in the morning, preceded by a conversation between the chief of staff of the junta, Admiral Carvajal, and President Allende on the resignation of the head of state as a price for protection. Allende objected to this proposal and Gen. Pinochet's soldiers began attacking the palace, defended by the supporters of the president . At 11: 00 Allende, by radio station, gave the nation his last message, that he will not leave the palace and will defend Chile until the end . Around 12: 00, the bombing of the palace began, combined with the storming of the army, culminating in the capture of the palace by the uniformed and suicide of Allende around 14:00 . Since 1981 (after a seven-year reconstruction of the building) until 1988, the executive authorities of the military junta were in the palace . After taking over by Patricio Aylwin in 1989, the palace was rebuilt, from the destruction of the military rule and its reopening took place on September 30, 2003 . Villa Grimaldi is also important in the field of symbols and memory. After September 11, 1973, it has forcibly changed its destiny from a residential home to a torture center where 4,500 people were detained and 229 of them disappeared . When the junta ended, the area of Villa Grimaldi was razed to ground by gen. Pinochet’s soldiers, to hide the evidence of human rights abuses that were committed there . The survivors and families
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