Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the capital of the Dominican Republic, founded by the governor Don Bartolomé Colón the 4th of august 1496, has now 3 million inhabitants.
Here you find a map. And
here one of the colonial zone.
El Faro a Colón, "Columbus' lighthouse", a big crossformed building to honor Columbus. In 1992 (500 years after the discovery) they completed the construction. |
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The Conservatoire in Santo Domingo, where I met many friends. They secretly teached me how to play the merengue, because it was forbidden to play the music of the streets in a conservatoire, only classical music! |
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The Indian cave "Guácara Taína" is transformed into a discotheque: watch out, there 's a dress-code. With tennisshoes you can't enter, you've paid the taxi for nothing. The taxidrivers laugh, your loss! |
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This old city gate "Puerte del Conde" is named after governor Conde de Peñalva, who
in 1655 has defended the city with succes against an english attack. The gate is
situated at the beginning of the shopping street "El Conde" and gives access to the Park
of the Independence, "Parque Independencia", the center of the city. |
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This is the entrance of the busiest shopping street "El Conde" in the old center
"Zona Colonial". At the corner is the cafetaria "Paco", open 24 hours. |
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In the shopping street "El Conde". |
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The market "Mercado Modelo", in the old colonial zone. |
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National Park of the Three Eyes:
"Parque Nacional de los Tres Ojos" is situated east of the river Ozama. "Tres Ojos" refers to the presence of three underground fresh-water lakes, three eyes of water. |
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The botanical garden, "Jardín Botánico Nacional Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso", is the biggest in the Caribbean and named after the prominent dominican botanist. |
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The entrance of hotel Lina where you can eat typical dominican food, very good. Clic on the photo for more pictures. |
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The Square of the Flag, "Plaza de la Bandera", is situated at the end of the important
road "27 de febrero" (february), when you leave the town southward, for instance
to Azua. A big and busy traffic circus. |
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The tunnel of the boulevard "27 de febrero". |
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This is the National Theatre, where I've seen Michel Camilo playing, a famous dominican jazz-pianist who, for exemple, plays many times at the famous North Sea jazz-festival in The Hague, Holland. |
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The bar in the National Theatre, where I tried to buy a beer, but couldn't succeed
with all the dominicans around me. I wasn't accostomed to such a lively and noisy crowd, so I asked my dominican friend Toni to help me and he went looking for the beers and succeeded immediatly! |
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This is the main building of one of the many banks in the Dominican Republic. |
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The bridge across the river Ozama, which is dividing Santo Domingo into two parts, is a characteristic town-view. |
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A fruit seller, you see many of them in the capital, like sellers of sugar-cane.
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The Obelisk at the boulevard by the sea |
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A beautiful tree on a little square at the boulevard ("malecón") by the sea of Santo Domingo. (1995)
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A typical building in Santo Domingo. In the language of the people it's called "Huacal" (bottle crate), because it lookes like stacked bottle crates. Officially the building is called "Juan Pablo Duarte", address: Av. Mexico with Leopoldo Navarro. It houses government offices, including the Ministry of Interior and Police and the Ministry of Public Administration. (2000)
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The main building of the police, located at 402 Avenida Leopoldo Navarro. (2000) |
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The subway, opened in 2009. (2012) |
