The church at Las Condes

"It was difficult to avoid the dynamism of the
valley when tracing the road toward the monastery.
It was hard to walk by its sides, parallel to the
Mapocho River, to its strong main artery, to sense
the pattern of the division of its land, without participating
in the experience of that focal center
which reaches its climax in the peaks of the
Andes . .
."
"Era tiificil sustraerse al dinamismo del valle, al
trazar el caviino de subida hacia el monasterio. Era
difieil caminar ¡unto a él. paralelamente a su rio
Alapocho, a sti principal arteria de concreto, al
sentido de la división de sus predios, sin participar
de la atracción de ese centro focal que culmina en
las alturas cordilleranas."