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Monument. Designated. 1895. Reference no. RI-51-0000070. Location of Ruins of San Domingos in Spain. The ruins of San Domingos (Spanish and Galician: Ruínas de San Domingos) was a convent located in Pontevedra, Galicia (Spain). It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1895. [citation needed]
Fortaleza Ozama. The Ozama Fortress (Spanish: Fortaleza Ozama), also formerly known as the city wall's Homage tower, is one of the surviving sections of the Walls of Santo Domingo, which is recognized by UNESCO as being the oldest military construction of European origin in the Americas. [1] It was built between 1502-1508 [2] by the Spanish at ...
Island of Santo Domingo. 1492–1499 Christopher Columbus, as Governor or Viceroy of the Indies. 1499–1502 Francisco de Bobadilla, as Governor of the Indies. 1502–1509 Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, as Governor of the Indies. 1509–1518 Diego Colón, as Governor of the Indies until 1511, thereafter as Viceroy of the Indies.
Ciudad Colonial (Spanish for "Colonial City") is the historic central neighborhood of the Dominican Republic 's capital Santo Domingo. It is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the Americas. The area has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. [1] It is also known as Zona Colonial (Colonial Zone) or more ...
Statues of the three founding fathers. From left to right: Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Juan Pablo Duarte and Matías Ramón Mella. La Trinitaria (Spanish: [la tɾiniˈtaɾja], The Trinity) was a secret society founded in 1838 in what today is known as Arzobispo Nouel Street, across from the "Del Carmen's Church" in the then occupied Santo Domingo, the current capital of the Dominican Republic.
Dominican Restoration War. The Dominican Restoration War or the Dominican War of Restoration (Spanish: Guerra de la Restauración, Guerra de Santo Domingo) was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between nationalists and Spain, the latter of which had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence.
The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation. It is the first and oldest cathedral in the Americas, [1] begun in 1504 and was completed in 1550. [2] It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Santo Domingo who has the honorary title of Primate of the Indies because this ...
The Portico of Glory (Galician: Pórtico da Gloria) of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral is a Romanesque portico and the cathedral's main gate created by Master Mateo and his workshop, on the orders of King Ferdinand II of León. The king donated to Mateo one hundred maravedís annually between 1168 and 1188. To commemorate its completion in ...