Vergara Palace, Historical monument in Viña del Mar, Chile

Palacio Vergara is a pale pink building with white trim in Viña del Mar's Quinta Vergara park, its central section rising higher than the two wings. White crenellations edge the flat roofline, and pointed arches form a ground-level gallery with a white balustrade, above which sits a loggia of smaller pointed arches with a balcony. The upper floor has rows of arched windows and a central group of five tall pointed-arched openings, with square, dark-grilled windows at the base.

After the 1906 earthquake, Blanca Vergara de Errázuriz had an Italian architect design this palace, which was finished in 1910. The project represented the family's effort to rebuild and create a statement of wealth and status in the recovering city.

Since 1941 the palace has housed the Museum and School of Fine Arts. Its salons keep rococo, Louis XVI and Empire furniture, plaster mouldings, and walls lined with tapestries embroidered in gold and silk. The building was declared a Historic Monument in 2008.

Visitors can walk through the interior rooms and explore the park with its various pathways and garden areas. Wearing comfortable shoes is helpful since there is quite a bit of walking involved to see everything.

The palace was modelled on Venice's Ca' d'Oro, and Blanca Vergara had it rebuilt on the foundations of the mansion the 1906 earthquake destroyed. Architects Ettore and Alejandro Petri saw it inaugurated in 1910. The 2010 earthquake damaged the structure; repairs ran from 2015 to 2020 and it reopened on 22 December 2021.