Memorial a Salomón Sack, Stone memorial in Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile
The Memorial to Salomón Sack is a stone stele bearing an inscription in his memory, set in the small plaza at the entrance to what was the University of Chile's Los Cerrillos campus, now the Carabineros training school. It was erected in 1962, a year after his death, by the University of Chile.
The stone stele was erected in 1962, a year after Salomón Sack Mott's death, as part of posthumous tributes by the University of Chile; he had refused publicity for his philanthropy during his lifetime. The site was then the entrance plaza of the Grupo Universitario de Los Cerrillos, built on 34 hectares he donated. The complex later passed to Carabineros de Chile, which opened its Escuela de Formación de Carabineros there in 1989.
Sack refused all publicity for his donations during his lifetime, so the University of Chile erected the stone stele with an inscription only after his death, as part of a series of posthumous tributes. The monument stands at the entrance to the former Grupo Universitario de Los Cerrillos, land he gave to the university.
The memorial is located directly at the entrance of the police school and can be viewed from the street. Visitors can observe it from the public access area without needing to enter the building.
The memorial stands on the exact land that Sack donated to the University of Chile, which later became the current police training facility. This connection between his original educational mission and the site's current use is not immediately obvious to passersby.
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