Columbus's park

Let's return on street of Archbishop Merino and we will reach on it Columbus's Park and street Ale Кондэ. In this foot street it is possible to get the various goods. Here there are shops and the most ancient jeweller benches of a colonial city.

While we transfer you the facts of our history, our country - the old house of America and a shelter for many which feel today happy because is inevitably recollected, that, that have divided it with us.
The heritage of the Colonial Zone reaches three hundred monuments, churches, streets and apartment houses which cannot be seen for one day. But time we have reached Columbus's Park, it is necessary to visit one of very important places of whom we especially are proud: Cathedral Santy-Marii of the Embodiment, the First in America.

In revival of classical forms in Spain architect Alonso де Rodriguez has received on May, 25th, 1510 the royal contract on Cathedral construction in Santo-Domingo де Gusman. Alonso has left on Испаньолу on June, 13th the same year with eleven builders and two masons. Don Dego Columbus has put in pawn the first stone, and work has begun. But work end was prevented by spirit of that time. Carried away by dreams of riches and the adventures, many workers have left on expedition with conquistadors, having terminated contracts. And Alonso де Rodriguez, together with drawings, has gone to Mexico and there in a consequence has constructed the Cathedral of Mexico City.

In 1519 on island there has arrived bishop Alehandro Heraldini and has tried to continue building. Second time the first stone has been put in pawn by it on March, 25th, 1521, and only in two years Херальдини achieves, eventually, the beginning of building which has come to the end seventeen years later, in 1540. Only the belltower remained not completed. In the Cathedral gothic style and Renaissance elements are mixed, and at domination of classical style many details of a late gothic style are observed. Daddy Paul III has given to the Cathedral the status Capital and Примария India in 1546 that has given it the church superiority over other churches based in New Light, and has transformed into the centre of the Christian world of this hemisphere. Except the main altar in the Cathedral fourteen часовен in which ashes of a considerable quantity of known persons - what never die in memory of the people are stored. Three doors conduct in an internal premise of the Cathedral. The first - in a North side opposite to Columbus's Park. The southern door, opposite to the Small area of Priests, is known also as the Pardon Door. To pass through this door for a considerable quantity of the pursued meant to receive protection when there were no international agreements which would protect a life of dissidents of a mode. Even now, when such agreements exist, more than never, we require a considerable quantity of Doors of the Pardon. To the biggest door, in style Платереско, we can pass through a court yard which during Haitian domination in XIX century has been transformed into the market.