Colchagua Province: Wine, Culture and Landscape

Colchagua Province offers different ways to plan your trip: wine tourism, culture and landscape can be discovered at specific places and through visitor experiences. If you are looking for a hotel, it helps to decide first what you want to focus on during your trip: would you like to experience museums and architecture, wine tours, or trekking in a natural setting?

Wine and museums at Viña Santa Cruz

At Viña Santa Cruz in Lolol, the combined museum experience includes a self-guided tour of the collections at Museo del Vino and Museo del Automóvil. The winery’s wine tourism experience also includes a cable car ride to Cerro de las Culturas. There, you can see representations of the Mapuche, Aymara and Rapa Nui cultures. A visit to Cerro de las Culturas also includes Museo del Meteorito, which displays genuine meteorite fragments. Check whether the exhibition is available before you travel. The Gran-Chamán Tour includes a guided tour and a tasting of Gran Reserva wines. While the museum tour is self-guided, the Gran-Chamán Tour is guided and includes a wine tasting. This lets you compare different types of visit based on your interests. Tour times and booking availability may change; check the provider’s current information before planning.

Architecture and landscape in Lolol and Apalta

Lolol is designated a Zona Típica and offers heritage-listed architecture to explore. Access to individual buildings may vary; check the visitor options for each one in advance. Here, the focus is on the built heritage, while the experiences at Viña Santa Cruz combine wine and museum themes.

Valle de Apalta is located in the municipality of Santa Cruz. There is a trekking opportunity there, offering views of the area’s natural landscapes. The valley also offers culinary experiences designed to be paired with wines from local wineries. Trekking and wine-paired cuisine are therefore different ways to discover Valle de Apalta. The availability of individual restaurants may vary.

Wine tours in several locations

Ruta del Vino Colchagua offers tours in Santa Cruz, Apalta and Marchigüe and their surrounding areas, providing an opportunity to discover Colchagua’s most important wineries. It offers a glimpse of wine tourism in several locations, while the Gran-Chamán Tour includes a guided tour and a tasting of Gran Reserva wines. Participating wineries and booking conditions may change. If you would like to plan your trip around a tour like this, check the current offerings before making plans.

More culture in the wider destination

The wider destination of Región Del Libertador General Bernardo O'higgins also offers a range of cultural points of interest. Museo Colchagua presents the Pataguilla archaeological site in Santa Cruz as a reconstruction of the continent’s oldest archaeological bone find, dating to 9,000 BC. In the Salinas de Barrancas near Cáhuil, a centuries-old salt-making occupation is practiced and passed down from generation to generation. Sewell has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006 and is a former mining camp with more than 100 years of history. These examples represent different themes: archaeological interpretation, a salt-making tradition passed down through generations, and mining history.

Find hotels to suit your travel interests

This lets you tailor your choice to the themes of your trip, without combining the different places and experiences into a single itinerary.

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Santa Cruz, Peralillo, Nancagua, Palmilla, San Fernando, Lolol, Placilla, Chimbarongo, Chépica

For the wider travel overview: Región Del Libertador General Bernardo O'higgins.