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Parque Colón, or Columbus Park, is the central square of the Ciudad Colonial historic district of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In its center stands a statue of Christopher Columbus , in whose honor the square was renamed in 1887.
The central public space of the district is Parque Colon, a square that borders the 16th-century Cathedral and has a late-19th-century bronze statue of Christopher Columbus in its center. East of Parque Colón, the cobblestone Calle Las Damas is the New World's oldest paved street, dating from 1502.
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
The Alcázar de Colón was built between 1510 and 1514. In 1509, Columbus himself became governor and viceroy of the colony. [2] The palace was constructed following the design of an existing structure in Mancera de Abajo, in Salamanca, Spain, of which ruins are still preserved.
Columbus Tomb at Columbus Lighthouse, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The Dominican historian Antonio Delmonte y Tejada, in his book History of Santo Domingo, published in 1852, expressed the idea of erecting a monument in honor of Columbus in Santo Domingo. [7]
Santo Domingo Este was created as a separate municipality in 2001 by Law 163-01, which split the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional. [4]Plans for local government separate from the National District were first floated in the 1970s.
Map of Colonial Santo Domingo from 1873. The red circle indicates the location of El Baluarte del Conde. La Puerta del Conde. La Puerta del Conde (The Count's Gate) was the main entrance to the fortified city of Santo Domingo (in present-day Dominican Republic), named to honor Governor Captain-General Bernardino de Meneses Bracamonte y Zapata, 1st Count of Peñalva, who during his tenure saved ...
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