On the second floor of the La Sebastiana museum is the bar, behind which only Neruda was allowed to stand, while making drinks for his friends. And it was here that Neruda conceived the poetry of flavors and liquor known as the "Coquetelón."

Upon arriving in the Mapocho valley, Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia set up camp to the west of the rock known as Huelen in the language of the indigenous Mapuche, or "Rock of Pain."