San Francisco de Limache was developed around the work of José Tomás Urmeneta –owner of a big mansion in front of the station -, the wealthiest industrialist miner and businessman from the mid XIX century, who bought these lands with no irrigation towards 1860, and built big channeling and irrigation sites. Part of his history may be seen at the Palmira Romano Historical Museum (Museo Histórico Palmira Romano). This museum was inaugurated in the year 2001 and was named after the former mayor, who bequeathed the precincts. It houses a collection of pieces from the history of the town donated by the community, interesting photographs of the old Limache, two rooms destined for painting galleries and a small room for archeology. Visiting hours are from Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm. The admission ticket costs $500, and students and children are free.

To go to Limache and the Lliulliu Dam (Embalse Liulliu), at the end of Av. Urmeneta, corner with Av. Palmira Romano, make a right. After crossing the Limache marsh go until Independencia street and continue up to the end to turn right on 18 de Septiembre street. At mile 5.5, a bit after exiting Limache, there’s the Huinganal Golf Club (Club de Golf Huinganal), that has a golf course with nine holes, tennis courts, swimming pools and games for children. It can be visited and golf classes can be taken.

Then you will see the beautiful fields with crops of avocado, cherimoya and tomatoes among eucalyptus groves. During the first fifteen days of February one of these fields is chosen by the Huasos Club (Club de Huasos), a cowboy club, in the area to do the traditional threshing, employing mares going in circles in an enclosed piece of ground.

At mile 8 you will get to a T shaped crossing, where next to it every Sunday morning kiosks sale farm produces from the valley, meat pies (empanadas) and hand-formed bread (pan amasado) cooked in mud ovens. At the crossing make a left. At mile 8.6 you’ll reach the entry to the Monastery of San Benito (Monasterio San Benito), which is one of the 4 Benedictine monasteries in Chile. It was founded in 1920 by the monks of the Samos Abbey (Abdaía de Samos), Spain. In 1977 it was moved to this place, where the monks are dedicated to rural activities. A beautiful mass with Gregorian chant is celebrated on Sundays. Masses are held from Monday to Saturday at 7 am, and Sunday at 11 am.

The monks have a small lodging house for retirement and a store where they sell their famous honey, which is open from 10 am to 12 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm.

At mile 13.6 you will get to the Lliulliu dam, that’s fed by the waters of the Lliulliu marsh and the runoffs of the hills with surrounding lush vegetation. It’s a private place, and you can only visit and walk by the fence up to its spillway.

Go back using the same road to stop by Limache, which means boulder of willows. Enter on República street until Independencia square. On its north side there’s the Parish of Santa Cruz (Parroquia de la Santa Cruz). It’s one of the three oldest parishes in Chile. The old temple was destroyed by a fire in 1956, and later the actual one was built on the same location. Inside there’s the Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora Purísima of the 40 Hours (Santuario de Nuestra Señora Purísima de las 40 Horas), where an image is under custody. According to the most popular version, it was found by fishermen in the creek of Concón, floating inside a chest. Its name is due to the fact that it arrived to Limache when the Most Holy was being exhibited for forty hours; later the festivity was moved to the last Sunday of February, to which more than 40 thousand pilgrims would come, culminating in a procession along the town’s streets.

At the end of the street you can appreciate the main house of the old country state El Mirador. Built in 1845, with adobe walls of up to a 3.2 feet of thickness, it has a pretty tower with 2 levels over its facade; in its rooms cultural events are held and the School of Fine Arts (Escuela de Bellas Artes) and the Conservatory of Music (Conservatorio de Música) function there, since the House of Culture (Casa de la Cultura) was located here in 1992. It’s open from Monday to Saturday, from 9 am to 8 pm.

From Limache fun trips around the nearby areas of intense farm activity can be taken, such as the trip to the San Benedetto Dairy Farm (Lechería San Benedetto). It’s a farm dedicated to the agrotourism where the processes for obtaining milk and its cooling process are explained, the dairy farm facilities are shown, and furthermore, you can milk a cow. You will also be able to taste the milk “coming fresh out of the cow”, with a flat bread cooked in the ashes of red hot coal (tortilla de rescoldo) and butter. The admission ticket costs $2.715 per person with a snack included. The trip to the Dairy Farm San Benedetto lasts three hours and a half.

To go to Limache and the Lliulliu Dam (Embalse Liulliu), at the end of Av. Urmeneta, corner with Av. Palmira Romano, make a right. After crossing the Limache marsh go until Independencia street and continue up to the end to turn right on 18 de Septiembre street. At mile 5.5, a bit after exiting Limache, there’s the Huinganal Golf Club (Club de Golf Huinganal), that has a golf course with nine holes, tennis courts, swimming pools and games for children. It can be visited and golf classes can be taken.

Then you will see the beautiful fields with crops of avocado, cherimoya and tomatoes among eucalyptus groves. During the first fifteen days of February one of these fields is chosen by the Huasos Club (Club de Huasos), a cowboy club, in the area to do the traditional threshing, employing mares going in circles in an enclosed piece of ground.

At mile 8 you will get to a T shaped crossing, where next to it every Sunday morning kiosks sale farm produces from the valley, meat pies (empanadas) and hand-formed bread (pan amasado) cooked in mud ovens. At the crossing make a left. At mile 8.6 you’ll reach the entry to the Monastery of San Benito (Monasterio San Benito), which is one of the 4 Benedictine monasteries in Chile. It was founded in 1920 by the monks of the Samos Abbey (Abdaía de Samos), Spain. In 1977 it was moved to this place, where the monks are dedicated to rural activities. A beautiful mass with Gregorian chant is celebrated on Sundays. Masses are held from Monday to Saturday at 7 am, and Sunday at 11 am.

The monks have a small lodging house for retirement and a store where they sell their famous honey, which is open from 10 am to 12 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm.

At mile 13.6 you will get to the Lliulliu dam, that’s fed by the waters of the Lliulliu marsh and the runoffs of the hills with surrounding lush vegetation. It’s a private place, and you can only visit and walk by the fence up to its spillway.

Go back using the same road to stop by Limache, which means boulder of willows. Enter on República street until Independencia square. On its north side there’s the Parish of Santa Cruz (Parroquia de la Santa Cruz). It’s one of the three oldest parishes in Chile. The old temple was destroyed by a fire in 1956, and later the actual one was built on the same location. Inside there’s the Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora Purísima of the 40 Hours (Santuario de Nuestra Señora Purísima de las 40 Horas), where an image is under custody. According to the most popular version, it was found by fishermen in the creek of Concón, floating inside a chest. Its name is due to the fact that it arrived to Limache when the Most Holy was being exhibited for forty hours; later the festivity was moved to the last Sunday of February, to which more than 40 thousand pilgrims would come, culminating in a procession along the town’s streets.

At the end of the street you can appreciate the main house of the old country state El Mirador. Built in 1845, with adobe walls of up to a 3.2 feet of thickness, it has a pretty tower with 2 levels over its facade; in its rooms cultural events are held and the School of Fine Arts (Escuela de Bellas Artes) and the Conservatory of Music (Conservatorio de Música) function there, since the House of Culture (Casa de la Cultura) was located here in 1992. It’s open from Monday to Saturday, from 9 am to 8 pm.

From Limache fun trips around the nearby areas of intense farm activity can be taken, such as the trip to the San Benedetto Dairy Farm (Lechería San Benedetto). It’s a farm dedicated to the agrotourism where the processes for obtaining milk and its cooling process are explained, the dairy farm facilities are shown, and furthermore, you can milk a cow. You will also be able to taste the milk “coming fresh out of the cow”, with a flat bread cooked in the ashes of red hot coal (tortilla de rescoldo) and butter. The admission ticket costs $2.715 per person with a snack included. The trip to the Dairy Farm San Benedetto lasts three hours and a half.