The Municipality of Santiago has confirmed that Lollapalooza Chile will return to Parque O’Higgins on 13–15 March 2026, ending a seven-year absence from the downtown park. The event, which drew hundreds of thousands of attendees in its previous editions, had been staged at Parque Bicentenario de Cerrillos since 2022 after pandemic-related cancellations and a permitting dispute with the former city administration. Mayor Mario Desbordes said the festival’s comeback would generate “indispensable” revenue for the capital and help revitalise the city centre. The municipal permitting committee has approved the move subject to technical and regulatory conditions, including payment of applicable fees, crowd-control measures and noise-mitigation requirements. Lollapalooza Chile, launched in 2011, is the country’s largest music festival and one of the brand’s longest-running international franchises. Its return to Parque O’Higgins restores the original site that hosted the event through 2019 and underscores Santiago’s push to revive large-scale cultural gatherings after the pandemic and recent social unrest.