The Santo Domingo North City Hall has received two garbage collection trucks donated by the Embassy of Japan, in a ceremony ...

The Mar de Palabras Literary Festival and the Santo Domingo Tourism Cluster have signed an agreement to boost the festival’s international profile and strengthen the Colonial City of Santo Domingo as ...

Partially barricaded by stone walls, accented with baroque architecture and lying on cobblestone streets, Santo Domingo's Zona Colonial marks the area where Columbus settled in the New World. Visitors ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Latin America's oldest colonial city is aiming for a rebound, pouring tens of millions of dollars into repairing streets, cleaning up trash, installing streetlights ...

Santo Domingo is the oldest city in the Americans, with more than 500 years of history. It's also one of the region's most affordable places to live or retire well. Along the narrow cobblestone ...

2025 47COM 7B.144 - Colonial City of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) 2024 46COM 8B.43 - Minor boundary modification - Colonial City of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) 2023 45COM 7B.114 - ...

The Dominican Republic is so much more than a beach resort destination. Santo Domingo, the capital city, is one that should without a doubt be on travelers’ radars – especially the history lovers out ...

The Dominican Republic was home to the first black people in the Americas. So why has Europe’s oldest permanent settlement in the Americas turned its back on its African past? Thick red-brick walls ...

1993, 1995, 1998; August 2001: ICOMOS monitoring mission; December 2009: World Heritage Centre site visit; December 2009: Joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission. 2009 WHC ...