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The Museo de las Casas Reales (English: Museum of the Royal Houses) is one of the important cultural monuments built during the colonial era in Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic. It is located in the Colonial district of Santo Domingo .
Museo de las Casas Reales, before the Palace of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, today a museum with 9 rooms on the colonial history of the island considered one of the best in the Caribbean; Museo de la Catedral, previously was La Carcel Vieja in colonial times (The Old Jail), then became the theater of the Filantropica society. Today ...
Manuel Cantón had previously built the Cantón Palace (Palacio Cantón), as a private residence for his uncle, General Francisco Cantón, the former governor of Yucatán (1898 -1902); the Cantón Palace has housed the Regional Museum of Anthropology (Museo Regional de Antropología) since it was founded by Fernando Cámara Barbachano in 1966.
The length of the city walls in 1785. The Ozama Fortress is one of the surviving sections. Model exhibits at the Museo de las Casas Reales in Santo Domingo. The Fortaleza is located at the end of Las Damas Street. Its name is due to its location near the Ozama River.
Museum of Air and Space (Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace) Museum of Natural History (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) Museum of Science and Industry (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie) National Navy Museum (Musée national de la Marine) National Railway Museum (Musée Français du Chemin de Fer)
1501- Calle Las Damas [], first street in the New World, is constructed 1502- Santo Domingo becomes the home of all the future conquistadors (Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alonso de Ojeda, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Juan Ponce de León, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Pedro de Alvarado, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, among others)
The Plaza de España, also known as the Plaza de la Hispanidad, is a public square located in the historic district of Ciudad Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. To its north lies the historic Alcázar de Colón , dating back to 1514, and to the south, the Museo de las Casas Reales , built in 1511.
The Atarazanas building is part of Colonial City of Santo Domingo World Heritage Site, and after restoration in 2018, today houses the Museo de las Atarazanas Reales, which reopened in December 2019 and exhibits artifacts recovered from underwater archaeology and other artifacts from colonial shipwrecks around Hispaniola island and the naval ...