🌺 🍍 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 🌴🐚

A beautiful shot taken during my bus tour this summer in May in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The rural countryside was absolutely breathtaking and humbling. Where 🥭 mangos, bananas, and all types of fruit grows on the roadside. I can’t wait to return. I’m an island girl through my soul. Preparing for another trip in 2025 🌴🌺🍍

🤓 FACTS:

Santo Domingo is the capital of the Dominican Republic and one of the Caribbean's oldest cities. Its walled, cobblestoned historic core, the Zona Colonial, has buildings that date to the 1500s, including the cathedral, which was the first built in the New World. On the cafe-lined Plaza de España is the Alcázar de Colón palace. It’s now one of the city’s many museums, displaying notable medieval and Renaissance art.

After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas. This colonial town, founded in 1498, was laid out on a grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the New World.

Citation:

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