One day in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

A day through Santo Domingo’s best-known sights that lie close together: Alcázar de Colón, Dominican National Pantheon, Parque Colon, Basílica Catedral Metropolitana Santa María de la Encarnación, Museum Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana and Altar of the Homeland. 6 stops, about 1.5 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Alcázar de ColónMuseum · On the map
  2. Dominican National PantheonTemple or shrine · 0.3 km on from Alcázar de Colón · On the map
  3. Parque ColonSquare · 0.2 km on from Dominican National Pantheon · On the map
  4. Basílica Catedral Metropolitana Santa María de la EncarnaciónCathedral · 0.1 km on from Parque Colon · On the map
  5. Museum Memorial de la Resistencia DominicanaMuseum · 0.5 km on from Basílica Catedral Metropolitana Santa María de la Encarnación · On the map
  6. Altar of the HomelandMonument · 0.4 km on from Museum Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana · On the map

6 stops, 1.9 km on foot along the streets: about 23 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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