In Santo Domingo, what is the best place to visit or spend time on summer?

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In Santo Domingo, what is the best place to visit or spend time on summer?

Answer 1

The answer of "Yayi" is complete, nothing to add. Of course Santo Domingo is ok to visit, but there are no beaches. For that you have to go to Boca Chica or Juan Dolio (45 and 68 km away). Anyway enjoy your stay!

Happy Feet

Answer 2

There are many places you can visit:

SANTO DOMINGO – this is the capital of the DR there these are your best spots: Parque Independencia- Calle Independencia (Indepencia Street) is at the begging of this mayor street and this is a park where our three fathers of our nation are buried. This is also one of the entrance to the colonial zone of the city. If you walk to one of the extremes of the park you will see this huge rock door that opens to a main walk-in road called “El Conde”. This is a commercial street that makes you go deep into the colonial city, at the end of this road you will find “La plaza de Colon” (Christopher Colombus’ park) and on one side the first cathedral built in the Americas called “Catedral Primada de America”. In this area there are many interesting things to see since most houses are from the colonial era, a Hard Rock Café is there too; once in the park you can ask where the “Alcazar” is (this was the house of Diego Columbus which was Columbus’ son) with a huge plaza that has a view of the commercial river of that time.

These are other interesting places to visit-

Plaza Central – this is one of our ok malls (located at 27 de Febrero Ave. w/ Wiston Churchill Ave.)

La Sirena – huge store where you can get nice soveniers at a cheaper price than a tourist shop (Winston Churchill Ave. w/ Roberto Pastoriza St)

Acropolis – this is big commercial building where you can shop and eat. (Winston Churchill Ave. a few block south of La Sirena)

Visit Lincoln Ave. at night to get the young people ambiance and check out some Cafés (**there is also many nice Cafes in the colonial Zone)

Ruinas de San Francisco – these are some ruins from a Monastery from the Colonial times too, nice experience and excellent picture place

El Malecon – (George Washington Ave.) Cant leave the city before visiting this site at night time, a water front with commercial spots and music (sometime live)

There are many other places I could recommend but I would just leave you with the site bellow

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-27...