Parque André Jarlán, Public park in Pedro Aguirre Cerda district, Santiago, Chile.
Parque André Jarlan is a public park in the Pedro Aguirre Cerda district of Santiago, Chile. It includes soccer fields, tennis courts, basketball areas, and outdoor exercise zones spread across the grounds.
The land was used as an illegal dumping ground in the 1970s before work to turn it into a park began in 1992. Architects Alberto Montealegre Klenner and Myriam Beach designed the layout for the reclaimed site.
The park honours André Jarlán, a French priest killed in 1984 while reading the Bible in his room in Población La Victoria, as a protest against the Pinochet dictatorship took place outside his residence. A neighbouring section, opened on 9 March 2018, is named Parque Pierre Dubois after another French priest.
The park lies beside the Rodríguez Erdoíza, Acevedo Hernández and La Victoria housing estates in Pedro Aguirre Cerda. Its perimeter was closed off in 1992, and the second of three planned stages opened in 1997; the first stage is still pending. The adjoining Parque Pierre Dubois, the third stage, was inaugurated on 9 March 2018.
The park was built in stages out of order: the second stage opened in 1997, while the first projected stage remains unbuilt. A third stage beside the park became a separate green space, Parque Pierre Dubois, funded in 2015 by the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism and inaugurated on 9 March 2018 in memory of the French priest Pierre Dubois.
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