Historical Santo Domingo Day Trip From Punta Cana.
Visit the oldest city of the Americas! Come and join us to experience walking through Santo Domingo, where history started in the Americas.
Santo Domingo, founded on 1496 and one of its historical places, ALCAZAR DE COLON. It was the first viceregal residence in the Americas, built around 1510 by the first Spanish settlement in the new world.
Santo Domingo is the capital of the Dominican Republic, its cultural and economic center. The city was founded by the younger brother of Christopher Columbus Bartolomeo in 1496 on a Sunday and in honor of this was named Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo is located in the south of the Dominican Republic, in the southeastern part of the island of Haiti. The city occupies a stretch of the flat coast of the Caribbean Sea. The climate is humid and tropical. Also, the Ozama River and the Alcazar de Colon are the oldest viceroy residences in America. It is part of the Colonial City of Santo Domingo. The building houses the Alcazar de Diego Colon Museum.
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