Patrimonios disonantes y memorias democráticas: una comparación entre Chile y España / Dissonant Heritage and Democratic Memories: a Comparison between Chile and Spain

This article compares politics of memory in Chile and Spain. It establishes similarities and differences in the management of built heritage, using examples of intentional and unintentional monuments that represent the dictatorial past. It proposes an interpretation centered in two different types of “democratic” memory and discusses an alternative model, which emerges from the academic dialogues that connect Spain and the Southern Cone. Keywords: Politics of Memory, Monuments, Heritage, Chile, Spain.