Colonial City of Santo Domingo

World Heritage

Dominican Republic

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The first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas were built on the island of Santo Domingo after Christopher Columbus arrived there in 1492. The colonial town was founded in 1498 on a grid-like layout that became the model for nearly all town planners in the New World.

# cathedral

# Colonial City

# 1492

# Christopher Columbus

# First in America

# Grid layout

Ciudad Colonial historical marker[6]

Alcázar de Colón

Ruins of the Monasterio de San Francisco, the oldest monastery built in the Americas

Palacio Consistorial

Interior view of Santa María la Menor Cathedral

Gate de la Misericordia in the Zona Colonial

Colonial Dominican Republic neighborhood of Padre Bellini

Colonial Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Streets View

Catedral Santa María La Menor is the oldest cathedral built in the Americas

Iglesia Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia

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Columbus Park

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Information extracted from Wikidata

country	Dominican Republic
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Santo%20Domingo%20Map%201873.jpg
located in the administrative territorial entity	Santo Domingo
executive body	Ciudad Colonial
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/02q6kms
Commons category	Ciudad Colonial
has part	Basílica Catedral Metropolitana Santa María de la Encarnación
coordinate location	Point(-69.883 18.473)
topic's main category	Belfry of Namur
area	106
World Heritage criteria	Larousse Encyclopedia online
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (ii)

start time	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name	Colonial City of Santo Domingo
official name	مدينة سانتو دومينغو المستعمرة
official name	Ciudad colonial de Santo Domingo
official name	Ville coloniale de Saint-Domingue
official name	サント・ドミンゴ植民都市
official name	Koloniale stad Santo Domingo
official name	Колониальный город Санто-Доминго
official name	圣多明各殖民城市
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (ii)
volume as quantity	Larousse Encyclopedia online
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)