Where did Salvador Allende grow up and live?

📍Providencia, Santiago, Chile

1908 – 1973

“I was born Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens on the 26th of June 1908 in Valparaíso, Chile, the son of a lawyer. I became a physician and a Marxist politician, and on the 4th of November 1970 I became the world's first democratically elected socialist head of state. I governed Chile for three years, nationalising the copper mines, expanding education, redistributing land. On the 11th of September 1973 General Pinochet's forces, backed by the CIA, bombed the presidential palace. I died in La Moneda — whether by my own hand or another's remains disputed. Santiago was my city, the Andes above it always visible, and I believed to the end that a peaceful road to socialism was possible.”

👍 LovedThe democratic path — the conviction that socialism could be achieved through elections rather than revolution. The copper nationalisation that returned Chile's wealth to Chileans. The Andes above Santiago always present.

👎 DislikedThe CIA-backed coup that ended the experiment. The violence of September 11 1973. The knowledge that the peaceful road was not permitted by those with the power to prevent it.

Map showing where Salvador Allende lived — Providencia, Santiago, Chile

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Salvador Allende's home at Providencia, Santiago, Chile

📍 Street view today

Sources: Haslam, J. The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile (2005), Verso; Verdugo, P. Allende: How He Died (1989)