🌴 Caribbean

Culture & discovery
Dominican Republic

Museums, festivals, local traditions · Official sites & practical info

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🏛️ Museums & Heritage 2 venues
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Alcázar de Colón
Colonial Zone, Santo Domingo

Fortified palace built between 1510 and 1514 for Diego Columbus, the oldest viceregal palace in the New World.

Colonial heritagePalace
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Museo del Hombre Dominicano
Plaza de la Cultura

The largest collection of Taíno artifacts in the Caribbean, along with an important collection of Dominican carnival masks.

AnthropologyTaíno culture
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💃 Local Traditions 2 venues
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Merengue
Nationwide

National dance and music born in the 19th century, inscribed in 2016 on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

UNESCO intangible heritageMusic
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Bachata
Nationwide

Couple's dance born from the fusion of bolero with Afro-Caribbean genres, inscribed by UNESCO in 2019.

UNESCO intangible heritageDance
🌐 Official sitegodominicanrepublic.com →