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At the beginning of the 20th century, at the request of a North American scientific expedition, the first significant work was developed and founded within what is now the Park. It was about the construction of the Lick Observatory, today Manuel Foster of the Catholic University. To this is added, one of the most colorful works of Cerro San Cristóbal: the monument to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary located at its summit.

At the beginning of 1916 Alberto Mackenna Subercaseaux and Pedro Bannen organized a campaign whose objective was to obtain the expropriation of the hills in order to assign them to public use. In August of this same year, the then deputy Pedro Aguirre Cerda, supported by twenty-four deputies from all political sectors of the time, presented a motion to the Chamber that became law No. 3,295, published in the Official Gazette on 28 September 1917. The initiative authorized the President of the Republic, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, to accept as a donation, buy or expropriate the lands that extended from the Cerro San Cristóbal to the Santiago Forest. The law declared this space of public utility destining it to the formation of a great park that today is the 722 hectares that make up the Metropolitan Park of Santiago.