Santo Domingo Culture and Sights

One of the first planned cities in Christopher Columbus's 'new world.'. After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, custom...

With Ecomuseum, aquatic pavilion, herbs, orchids and a Japanese garden and a river with a waterfall, which is near the zoo in the neighboring Río Isabela pours, the Botanical Garden is one of the most...

The oldest cathedral in America, designed by Italian Bishop Alessandro Geraldini and from 1523 by Luís de Moya and Rodrigo de Liendo built, is a mixed Renaissance and Gothic. The foundation aims Diego...

Jewel of 1528-1555 by Rodrigo de Liendo built monastery church is the baroque, allegedly with silver from the mines of the island decorated altar. The west facade dates from 1617, 1673 it was extended...

The core of the rectangular city investment of Nicolás de Ovando, 1502, and created a model of all Spanish colonial towns. In the West the limited space on Calle Arzobispo Merino, in the east on Calle...

At the corner of Calle Isabel la Católica, the Colegio Santa Clara to see a primary school in an even partially preserved walls of the first women's monastery in America. The old monastery church with...

Behind the cathedral stands the brightly-painted Casa del Sacramento (early 16th century - the tower was about 1931), seat of the first archbishop. South, in the Calle Isabel la Católica 54, you will ...

Originally, the "Royal Road" because it is based on the palace manner, remembers her name to Maria de Toledo, wife of Diego Colón, like here with their ladies promenierte. The road was built to coinci...