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Museo de las Casas Reales

Once the seat of the colonial government, this museum houses everything from Taino artifacts to 16th-century armor to an old apothecary shop lined with ceramic jars.

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From Travel + Leisure , JUN 2006

It's mid-afternoon in Santo Domingo's Zona Colonial, an 11-square-block district of peeling, cheerfully painted town houses and whitewashed churches built in the aftermath of Christopher Columbus's arrival in 1492. Five hundred–plus years later, some might say that the Dominican Republic's UNESCO World Heritage Site could do with a bit of a hose-down. ...MORE>>

– Alexandra Marshall The New Gold Coast

Last updated June 2006