A Short Stay in Santo Domingo

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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

By: Kerry

Alcazar de ColonMick and Garth are scheduled to fly out of San Juan in Puerto Rico on April 9, so they’ve decided to jump ship here, where we’re close to the airport, and connect through to PR.

It’s the end of the line for them and we all felt in need of a ‘holiday’, so we booked rooms in a lovely hotel (Boutique Hotel Palacio) in a refurbished colonial building in the Zona Colonial of DR’s capital city, Santo Domingo.

Santo Domingo is the oldest city in the New World, and claims to have the first street, cathedral, university and hospital in the Americas, dating back to the early 16th century.

The Zona Colonial – the old town – has been declared a World Heritage Site and has been meticulously restored: there are impressive churches and official buildings, and cobblestone streets lined with beautiful stone houses that showed architectural links to all the great cities of Latin America. It’s lovely.

We spent a day or so just wandering around the streets – we weren’t really in the mood for museums and such, but happily just snapped photos. Lots of photos.

Our hotel
Our hotel
Little man on the corner
Cristobal Colon
Cathedral gates
Cathedral gates
Pantheon Nacional
Pantheon Nacional
Calle de las Damas
Calle de las Damas
Alcazar de Colon
Alcazar de Colon
Catedral Primada de America
Catedral Primada de America
Catedral Primada de Americaand Pope Paul II
Catedral Primada de America
Catedral Primada de America

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  1. Hi Kerry & Damian,

    I’ve just completed reading most of the ~ 17 Caribbean blogs!! Kerry, the shots in this last one are brilliant! You could make a career out of photography if you ever needed to.

    Nothing dramatic to report from Woollahra – all is well – lots of travelling this year.

    I’ll write soon.

    Love,

    Brian

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