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Puerto Plata has resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, which are located east of the city proper. There are 100,000 hotel beds in the city. The first aerial tramway of the Caribbean is located in Puerto Plata, in which visitors can ride up to the Pico Isabel de Torres, a 793-meter (2600-foot) high mountain within the city.
The fort is one of the oldest European structures in the Caribbean, [5] [6] and is the only remnant of the 16th century in Puerto Plata. [7] Today, the Fortaleza San Felipe serves as a museum [8] [9] showcasing the important role it has played in the history of Puerto Plata and the Dominican Republic. The fortress houses military artifacts from ...
Cabarete nightlife. Cabarete was founded in 1835 by the merchant Zephaniah Kingsley as part of his Mayorasgo de Koka estate, where he moved along with his mixed-race family and 53 slaves he had freed from his Florida plantations and brought here while the island was under Jean Pierre Boyer's administration.
The town of Sosúa was officially founded by Jewish refugees (see Dominican Jews) fleeing from Nazi Germany.At the 1938 Evian Conference, Rafael Trujillo offered to accept up to 100,000 Jewish refugees; about 800 German and Austrian Jewish refugees received visas issued by the Dominican government between 1940 and 1945 and settled in Sosúa.
Oro, Plata, Mata (Spanish: Gold, Silver, Death) is a 1982 Philippine historical war drama film co-written and directed by Peque Gallaga.The screenplay written and adapted by José Javier Reyes was based on the story developed by Gallaga, along with Mario Taguiwalo and Conchita Castillo.