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SANTO DOMINGO
DISCOVERING THE NEW CITY
| Even if new Santo Domingo is rich in hotels, restaurants, cinema, stores, casino, discos and night clubs, however offers |
| several interesting places: Mercado Modelo, in Mella street, behind the colonial city, with sale of local handicrafts, |
| pictures, souvenir; Palacio Nacional, in Doctor Delgado street, seat of the government; Jardin Botanico, in Arroyo Hondo, |
| with the most big floral clock all over the world and a beautiful Japanese garden; Plaza de la Cultura, in Gazcue, with |
| Teatro Nacional, Galeria de Arte Moderna, Cineteca, Museo de Historia Natural, Museo de Historia y Geografia and Museo |
| del Hombre Dominicano. In front of this museum three statues symbol of Dominican history: Enriquillo, a Indio rebel against |
| the Spanish conquerors, Lemba, a black that breaks the bonds of the slavery of his people, and Bartolomeo de Las Casas, |
| a Spanish preacher that in vain fighted for the defense of the Taino indios; Faro de Colon, inaugurated in 1992 on the occasion |
| of the Fifth Centenary of America discovery, that contains Cristoforo Colombo ashes, is lighted by laser lights that cast in the |
| sky an immense luminous cross visible at wide distance (70 km), has a cross plan and is of enormous dimensions, 230 |
| meters lenght, 70 meters width and 70 meters high. Was planed by John L. Gleave, English architect. On the mausoleum |
| level ground, on October 12 Papa Giovanni Paolo II celebrated Mass, on the occasion of the transport of Colombo ashes from |
| the Cathedral. Finally, in the suburbs, on the right bank of Ozama river, Los Tres Ojos, natural cavern with three small |
| subterranean lakes. |
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| harbor
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| the
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| cruise
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| Malecon
boulevard | |||
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| Malecon
Center | |||
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| montesinos
statue | |||
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| Faro
de Colon, in Parque Mirador del Este, nearby the left bank of Ozama river | |||
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| Parque
Mirador del Este | |||
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| Plaza
de los Heroes | |||
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| La
Feria | |||
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| Palacio
Nacional, seat of the goverment | |||
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| Museo
del Hombre Dominicano with the three staues symbol of the country | |||
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Biblioteca
Nacional | |||
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Mercado
Modelo | |||
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| Planetarium | |||
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Los
Tres Ojos (150 meters deep), where a subterranean river formed three small lakes
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