Casa presidencial de Tomás Moro, Presidential residence in Las Condes, Chile
Casa presidencial de Tomás Moro is a single-storey white-walled house with a red-tiled roof, built in 1938 in a marked Spanish style. A central section with a covered porch on dark wooden posts, holding three arched openings with grilles, is flanked by two projecting wings; the left wing has an arched grille window with three spherical clay pots at its base, the right wing a dark arched doorway with an iron grille and a small lantern beside it.
The residence served as President Salvador Allende's home until September 11, 1973, when military aircraft bombed the property during Chile's military coup. This attack marked a decisive moment in the nation's modern history and left lasting impacts on the building itself.
At the entrance, muralist María Martner set a 3x5-metre coat of arms made of Chilean stones — quartz, lapis lazuli, agates and jasper, among others — commissioned by Allende and inaugurated on 30 September 1972. Later the emblem was covered with successive layers of oil paint, and from 2006 Francisco Cuadrado Prats, grandson of General Carlos Prats, led its recovery.
The house stands at Avenida Tomás Moro 200 in Las Condes, Santiago. It is occupied by the Consejo Nacional de Protección a la Ancianidad (Conapran), linked to the Chilean Air Force, so it is not open as a museum. The stone mural of the national shield at the entrance was covered with successive layers of oil paint.
The stone mural at the entrance, made by María Martner in 1972 from Chilean quartz, lapis lazuli, agates and jasper, was later covered with successive layers of oil paint. It was rescued from 2006 by Francisco Cuadrado Prats, grandson of General Carlos Prats, the same year the house was declared a Historical Monument.
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