Dominican Republic
August 10th, 2009
I had the chance to spend 5 days in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, back in June, where I spoke at an EU-organized conference. On my last day there, I took the chance to wander the old colonial city, accompanied by Luis, a great guide. We started at the old fort above, built by Christopher Columbus. We stopped at the building that housed the very first university in the whole of the new world (below).
Luis also took me into the Monument of Heroes, where I was able to see the burial places of a number of Dominican national heroes, and took the pic of the massive chandelier gifted by one dictator to another in the past - Franco of Spain to Trujillo of the Dominican Republic.
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