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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Coordinates: Construction started: February 27, 1944; 80 years ago () Completed: August 16, 1947: Technical details; Floor area: 18,000 m 2 (190,000 sq ft) Design and construction; Architect(s) Guido D'Alessandro
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
Sports venues in Santo Domingo (7 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Santo Domingo" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The Distrito Nacional (Spanish pronunciation: [disˈtɾito nasjoˈnal]; D.N.) is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo.It is not in any of the provinces, but in practice, it acts as a province on its own.
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, second female vice-president of the Dominican Republic. In 1931, the Dominican Feminist Action, led by Abigail Mejia, hosted the First Feminist movement in the country demanding equal rights under the Constitution. Dominican women won the right to vote in 1942, through the constitutional reform of that year ...
Casa de Campuzano Polanco, later Casa de los Presidentes, now Arzobispado de Santo Domingo; Calle de los Nichos or del Arquillo chico, previously Calle del Mono in the XVI-XVII and Calle de los Polancos in the 18th century, today calle Pellerano Alfau, which is a pedestrian street. Both the Casa de Diego Caballero and the Campuzano Polanco are ...
Mariasela Álvarez Lebrón (born January 31, 1960 in Santo Domingo) is a Dominican architect, tv host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1982.She became the first Dominican woman to win an international beauty title. Álvarez achieved much popularity in her native country, due to her long career on television, which included a successful eight-year run with her award-winning show Esta ...
Tomb that housed the remains of Christopher Columbus until 1795. Rear north facade of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo in a photo of 1899. The architecture of the building of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo is characterized by a Gothic style with ribbed vaults, solid walls and three doors, two of them Gothic in contrast to the third and main of Gothic-Plateresque style.