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Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) [1] was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation.
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.
Félix Sánchez Olympic Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez) is an open-air multi-purpose stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.Opened in 1974 for the XII Central American & Caribbean Games and renovated 2003 Pan American Games is the largest stadium in the Dominican Republic used mostly for football and track and field and as a music venue.
The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (Orden al Mérito de Duarte, Sánchez y Mella) is the principal order of the Dominican Republic. It was established on 24 February 1931 as the Juan Pablo Duarte Order of Merit (Orden al Mérito Juan Pablo Duarte) and renamed on 9 September 1954.
Juan José Duarte Rodríguez was born in Vejer de la Frontera, Province of Cádiz, Spain, on September 15, 1768, son of Manuel Duarte Jiménez and Ana María Rodríguez Tapia. [1] Not much is known about his childhood and adolescent, but he did, at some point, migrate to Santo Domingo in the 1790s.
Juan Pablo Duarte By 1838, Mella's association with Perez allowed him to be introduced to his mentor, Juan Pablo Duarte . Duarte was looking to recruit new members for the nationalistic movement, La Trinitaria , a secret organization that sought to establish an independent nation by liberating the Dominican people from Haitian rule.
Painting of founding fathers of the Dominican Republic: Matías Ramón Mella, Juan Pablo Duarte, and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez. On the night of February 27, 1844, the leaders of the Triniatrios were going to make their dreams come true: to not only free the Dominicans from Haitian control, but to established an independent state free from all foreign power.
Altar de la Patria, or Altar of the Homeland, is a white marble mausoleum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that houses the remains of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic: Juan Pablo Duarte, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, and Ramón Matías Mella, collectively known as Los Trinitarios.