Santiago is one of the world’s top 10 cities to visit in 2017

Santiago in Chile was named one of the world’s top 10 cities to visit by National Geographic Traveller, writes Isabel Conway. After a holiday there, she understands why. 

In geography’s version of a long shoe lace, trapped between impenetrable mountain on one side and a vast ocean on the other it is said their’s is a patchwork of all the good bits God left over after creating the earth.

Visit Chile and you soon share the nation’s opinion.