Private beach Aura Beach, located behind the border of the city, not even close to similar to something that imagine when you think about the beaches of the Dominican Republic. Sunbeds are not stand in rows, and is no struggle for a better place. Every place here is as comfortable as it is adjacent. In contrast to the island resorts of this region, here - just a few steps from Santo Domingo, really lies the place where you can spend hours on end just bask in the sun.
Before dawn, you can catch dinner pasta with seafood, which will be served directly to your personal chairs, standing at the edge of the ocean. Where, if not here, you can taste the exquisite bliss of decadence.
What you may not know, so it is that Santo Domingo, in fact - a city with rich historical and cultural heritage. Here was a road trodden simultaneously discoverers, conquerors and pirates. Here every cobblestone pavement breathes history, and houses in colonial style pose stories about winners and losers. In the end, it is here leg Conqueror first set foot on the land of the Americas.
Midday heat is on the decline, and the blue of the sky gradually giving way to a colorful riot of orange and red. Landscape becomes a vague silhouettes of palm trees and wicker huts on stilts right in the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea.
In general, it is not surprising that it is this idyllic island was first inhabited by immigrants from Europe, back in the sixteenth century. It landed here on Dec. 5, 1492, Christopher Columbus, it is this island, he is named "Espanyol" in honor of a distant homeland. In the annals of history this day will remain as the first stop on a dramatic way the conquest of the Americas.
Colonial wars and conflicts following centuries led to the fact that the Caribbean filled the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English, constantly doing battle for control of the sea. Do not forget about the pirates, who spoiled the blood of each other and everyone else. All this has led to an idyllic island that each region has become someone so populated.
The colonial quarter of Santo Domingo, with its cobbled streets and elegant buildings still retained the spirit of that era. Now here are the best restaurants, hotels, boutiques, and historic monuments, such as acting and still the Cathedral of Santa Maria, built in the distant sixteenth century. The atmosphere here in a flash utyanet you during the beginning of colonization, when the very first European city in the Antilles still breathing youth.
One of the oldest buildings of the historical center - «Sofitel Nicolas de Ovando», a handsome two-story mansion with columns, wooden arches, galleries and courtyard, overgrown with luxuriant tropical vegetation. Here you must take a very important guest - because it was decided to receive guests at the governor of Hispaniola, Nicolas de Ovando, whose name and is now a private residence. De Ovando rules hence the island from 1502 to 1509 - among other things, stone walls, beds with heavy canopies, and even some other furniture will remember his voice and gait.
Next door, just a few minutes walk along the cobbled streets, is the governor's palace, "Alcazar de Colon, built in 16 century. The house in which he lived the firstborn of Christopher Columbus, Don Diego Colon, stands directly in the central square. This building - the oldest seat of government in America, and today houses the Museum of art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (by the way, the local collection - the most significant in the Caribbean).
Today, in a crowded among tourists lounging Santo Domingo, almost no one pays attention to the traces of history, memory beginning the era of colonization of the New World. Except for one or two strange paintings of local state museum, only engraved glassware and rare black-and-white photographs reminiscent of the colonial past of this wonderful island.
Before dawn, you can catch dinner pasta with seafood, which will be served directly to your personal chairs, standing at the edge of the ocean. Where, if not here, you can taste the exquisite bliss of decadence.
What you may not know, so it is that Santo Domingo, in fact - a city with rich historical and cultural heritage. Here was a road trodden simultaneously discoverers, conquerors and pirates. Here every cobblestone pavement breathes history, and houses in colonial style pose stories about winners and losers. In the end, it is here leg Conqueror first set foot on the land of the Americas.
Midday heat is on the decline, and the blue of the sky gradually giving way to a colorful riot of orange and red. Landscape becomes a vague silhouettes of palm trees and wicker huts on stilts right in the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea.
In general, it is not surprising that it is this idyllic island was first inhabited by immigrants from Europe, back in the sixteenth century. It landed here on Dec. 5, 1492, Christopher Columbus, it is this island, he is named "Espanyol" in honor of a distant homeland. In the annals of history this day will remain as the first stop on a dramatic way the conquest of the Americas.
Colonial wars and conflicts following centuries led to the fact that the Caribbean filled the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English, constantly doing battle for control of the sea. Do not forget about the pirates, who spoiled the blood of each other and everyone else. All this has led to an idyllic island that each region has become someone so populated.
The colonial quarter of Santo Domingo, with its cobbled streets and elegant buildings still retained the spirit of that era. Now here are the best restaurants, hotels, boutiques, and historic monuments, such as acting and still the Cathedral of Santa Maria, built in the distant sixteenth century. The atmosphere here in a flash utyanet you during the beginning of colonization, when the very first European city in the Antilles still breathing youth.
One of the oldest buildings of the historical center - «Sofitel Nicolas de Ovando», a handsome two-story mansion with columns, wooden arches, galleries and courtyard, overgrown with luxuriant tropical vegetation. Here you must take a very important guest - because it was decided to receive guests at the governor of Hispaniola, Nicolas de Ovando, whose name and is now a private residence. De Ovando rules hence the island from 1502 to 1509 - among other things, stone walls, beds with heavy canopies, and even some other furniture will remember his voice and gait.
Next door, just a few minutes walk along the cobbled streets, is the governor's palace, "Alcazar de Colon, built in 16 century. The house in which he lived the firstborn of Christopher Columbus, Don Diego Colon, stands directly in the central square. This building - the oldest seat of government in America, and today houses the Museum of art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (by the way, the local collection - the most significant in the Caribbean).
Today, in a crowded among tourists lounging Santo Domingo, almost no one pays attention to the traces of history, memory beginning the era of colonization of the New World. Except for one or two strange paintings of local state museum, only engraved glassware and rare black-and-white photographs reminiscent of the colonial past of this wonderful island.
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