Stories
The stories behind the animitas: those who build them, those who tend them and those who pray to them.
A wall of thanks
Opposite the Estación Central railway station, thousands of plaques each tell a different story. They all begin with the same word.
Read storyKilometres of memory
On Route 5 North, animitas mark the road as much as the signs do. A journey through Chile's longest landscape of mourning.
Read storyThose who light the candles
Behind every animita still standing there is someone who looks after it. A portrait of the anonymous keepers of folk memory.
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