This is the original main gate through which all the prisoners passed when they entered or left.
Our guide, Rodrigo, is the president of the Corporación Villa Grimaldi, and spent two weeks here during 1976, when he was a militant of the MIR.
The park is built along two axes, one from the gate to the tower (seen in the background here), and the other from the entrance to the opposite corner. The axes converge here.
These cells measure one by one by 2 meters or so, and housed up to four or five people at a time, who only left twice a day to use the restroom, apart from the times they were taken for interrogation.
The prisoners were kept blindfolded and chained hand and foot.
The information markers are kept down on the ground, to force you to look down while you walk. When blindfolded, the prisoners were only able to see by looking downwards below the blindfold.
From this tree a conscript guard was suspended in order to be beaten to death with chains, after having leaked information about the villa to relatives of prisoners.
Names of the disappeared who were last seen here.
There used to be a shed here, from the roof of which the prisoners were suspended in order to have electricity applied to them.
At the base of the guard tower. The guards stayed on the top level; on the second and third level, condemned prisoners were held awaiting transport to a different site where they were given lethal injection. On the bottom level prisoners were held in suspension from the roof or dunked in a water tank below the trap door seen behind Rodrigo.
Inside one of the prisoners' cells on the second level of the tower.
This swimming pool predates the use of the Villa as a torture center. On weekends, DINA staff would come with their families to have barbecques and use the swimming pool, less than ten meters from the tower and less than twenty meters from the 1 x 1 meter cells.
The political parties who were members of the UP have had spaces given to them in the park to put up their own memorials. Only the Socialist Party has not done anything with its plot yet. This is for the Commmunists.