Santo Domingo: TravelGuide

Capital of the Dominican Republic, established on August 4th, 1496 by Bartolomé Colon in the western part of the river Ozama, it is the first city established in America. Situated on the coast the South of the island, bathed by the Caribbean Sea. Its historic center with its colonial zone,... More

Capital of the Dominican Republic, established on August 4th, 1496 by Bartolomé Colon in the western part of the river Ozama, it is the first city established in America. Situated on the coast the South of the island, bathed by the Caribbean Sea. Its historic center with its colonial zone, accommodates more than 300 historic museums. It is the place which deserves to be to visit, to contemplate its museums and its monuments, its houses built at the time of the colonization, here you can observe the first cathedral built in America, colonist's Alcazar, other Don Diego Colon's residences son of Christophe Colon, the monastery of Dominicos, place of the first university of the New World, the house of Bastidas, the house of the Jesuits. Born in 1496 of energetic founder Don Bartolomé Colon under the name of Nueva Isabela and later replaced by Guzman in Santo Domingo of Guzman. The Capital of the Dominican Republic is a mixture where the history of the colonization of the continent is made in pure passion at the rate of the merengue. Nor its current condition of tourist center with a hotel business of first category and all the temptations of this condition, can erase its adventurers' incredible stories. Museum pieces, free of adventures, its radiant sun, cultural and political center of the country, the automobile called Major of Americas has a little of everything to show. In past, declared by the UNESCO world heritage, the cathedral is imperative first of all, not only by its presence (it is the first one(night) built in America) otherwise by its particular architecture mixing the Romanic, Gothic style and the revival. At not enough distance, Fortaleza Ozama reminds its condition of military construction of the continent. Less