Arena Paranal

Paranal is not just the best observatory in the world. Hidden behind the advanced technology and the thrilling discoveries and below the most beautiful clear sky, a lot happens around the site. In fact, a lot more than one could imagine. For example, there's a music room, fully loaded with instruments, where anyone can play.

In Chile, there are so many people playing instruments that it doesn't surprise that some of them work at Paranal. Some play just for fun, others do have bands playing in Santiago. Working in shifts makes it hard to have all musicians together at one time, but recently it happened and Paranal had the honour of being given a concert, a tribute concert to The Police.