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The Three Eyes National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Los Tres Ojos) is a 50-yard open-air limestone cave located in Mirador del Este park, within the Santo Domingo Este municipality of the Dominican Republic. [1] The park features a series of three lakes, or ojos, [2] and is one of the country's most popular tourist attraction.
Vin Santo (Italian: [vin ˈsanto]; lit. ' Holy Wine ' ) is a style of Italian dessert wine . Traditional in Tuscany , these wines are often made from white grape varieties such as Trebbiano and Malvasia , although Sangiovese may be used to produce a rosé style known as "Occhio di Pernice" or eye of the partridge .
In Italy, they are known as cantucci, biscotti di Prato or biscotti etruschi and may be dipped in a drink, traditionally Vin Santo. Smaller biscotti may be known as biscottini [2] or cantuccini. [3] In Italian, the word biscotti (sg.: biscotto) encompasses all types of biscuits or cookies.
Taíno pictographs in Cuevas de las Maravillas, the Dominican Republic. The Parque nacional Cueva de las Maravillas (English: Cave of wonders National Park) is a national park located approximately 15 kilometres (9 miles) east from San Pedro de Macorís and 10 kilometres (7 miles) west from La Romana, in the south-eastern part of the Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
Map of the Parque Nacional Submarino La Caleta, indicating the park's boundaries and the locations of diving sites. The Parque Nacional Submarino La Caleta (English: La Caleta Underwater National Park) is a national park located approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
People in Columbus park, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 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. Previously the square was known as Plaza Mayor.
After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas. This colonial town, founded in 1498, was laid out on a grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the New World. [3]
The National Park was created in 1975 to conserve the cave and the forest ecosystem where the oilbirds feed. The altitude of the national park is 900–2,340 m (2,950–7,680 ft). There are 367 species of bird in the national park, which has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA).