Enjoy the delights of the resort of Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, home of the first university in the New World, the cathedral and the hospital. The modern part of the city of the Dominican is a thriving port with a lot of night clubs and casinos, shopping and cultural centers. In the capital, every tourist will find something for everyone, as well as in the rest of the Dominican Republic.
The country has managed to maintain its original character, which combines a deep and sincere religious explosive rebellious spirit. Add to this the magnificent nature, hundreds of miles of beautiful beaches protected by coral reefs, clear blue waters of lagoons, rivers, lush forests and majestic mountains with the highest peak in the Caribbean - Peak Duarte (located in the Dominican Republic) - and the picture of the tropical paradise of the Dominican will be complete.
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Visit the Los Tres Ojos de Agua ("three water Eyes") - a remarkable cave complex of the Dominican Republic, named in honor of three turquoise lagoons that feed underground rivers and surrounded by countless stalactites, stalagmites and tropical vegetation, characteristic of the Dominican Republic.
Look in the San Cristóbal (San Cristóbal), where 6 November 1844 signed the first constitution of the Dominican Republic. You will see the sights, to the life of the dictator Trujillo, who kept the country with an iron fist from 1930 to 1961
The north coast of the Dominican Republic took its name from Amber Coast the world's largest deposits of amber found in the hills not far from here, but it is rather a good reputation based on the fact that there is a band of beautiful beaches of the Dominican Republic, an area of 120 square kilometers, stretching east from Puerto Plata. In the museum you can admire Amber amber specimens caught in these places.
Do not forget the Fort San Felipe (San Felipe), built in 1540, residents of the Dominican Republic to protect against pirates. Now it is a small museum, proudly showing the traces left by the fort of San Felipe in the history of the Dominican Republic.
The oldest, the central part of the capital, was built up mainly in the XVI century and is rich in monuments of the colonial era. Of great interest are Fort San Diego, the residence of the Spanish crown in the New World - the palace Alkasap-de-Kolon ("Fortress of Columbus", 1510-1514 gg.) With a luxurious garden, Fort Concepcion (XVII c.), Casa de Bastidas ("Captain's Palace") and the Casa de Ovando (XVI c.) with the only American Gothic portal, Sundial (1753) at the end of the street Kalle des las Damac, the first stone building in the region - Kasa-del -Kopdon ("House of the ribbon", 1503), the palaces of the Casa del Duarte and Casa Borgelya Street Isabel la Catolica, House Casa del Tapao, the first fortress of the New World - La Fortaleza (the "Fort worship "), a complex of the Casa de la Moneda (Mint, XVI c.), the palace Hostal Nicolas Nader, the oldest in the region, the University of Santo Domingo (1538), Fortress Ozama (1502-1507 gg.) the Torre del Omenahe ("Bashnya chectvovaniya" 1507), Dom Kolymba (the first house built in the Canto-Domingo), the first on the continent at St. Nicholas (1503-1505 gg.), ensemble Atapazana colonial buildings, camaya oldest paved street of the New World - Kalle des las Damac, pamyatnik "Pyepta-del-FUND", etc.
No less interesting is one of the symbols of the city - a huge beacon of Faro Colón ("Columbus Lighthouse", 1992), located on a hill in the eastern part of the city, which is the mausoleum of white marble, the remains of Columbus, c, and a museum dedicated to the history of the monument, as well as the discovery and conquest of the Americas. Also worth visiting is the National Pantheon (1714-1745 gg.), Mausoleum Baluarte or "Altar of the Homeland" (buried here founders of the Dominican Republic: Duarte, Sanchez and Mella), a suite of Atarasana (XVI c.), University of Santiago de la Paz Truc Street, the National Palace (in 1947, the residence of the President), or explore the old quarters of the city, built-up buildings in the original style, which is hard to find a definition.
In the city a lot of churches, which is not surprising - it is here intended to carry the Christian church "wild tribes" of America. Symbol of Santo Domingo is the Cathedral of Santa Maria la Menor (1514-1540 gg. - The oldest Church in America), not less interesting church of St. Nicholas (XVI c.) Byvshaya pezidentsiya apxiepickopa Canto-Domingo - Kasa-del-Toctado (now here Dominikancky myzey cemi), church-Rekhin Anhelorum (XVI century). outside Padre Bellini, the church and monastery of the Dominican Order of Santo Domingo (Los Dominikos, 1510), the Church and Convent of Santa Clara (1522 ), the chapel of St. Andrew in the most beautiful altar of the country, the ruins of the church of Santa Barbara (XVI c.), the chapel of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (XVI c.), the ruins of the ensemble-Can Hikolac-de-Bapi (1503 -1508 years.), the church and monastery of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (1530, now here is the Dominican Academy of History), the church of San Miguel, the Church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen
(XVIII c.) Chapel Tercero-Order (XVIII c., now here is the municipal library), the ruins of the monastery-Fpantsicko Can (1512, pepvy monactyp amepikanckogo kontinenta), etc.