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Dominican Republic
República Dominicana6 carefully sourced place chapters, ready to explore without an artificial itinerary.
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The national patron church of the Dominican Republic, housing the venerated image of the Virgin of Altagracia and drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims each January for the feast day that is one of the most important religious events in the Caribbean.
OpenThe most famous stretch of white sand on the Dominican Republic's eastern coast, where turquoise Caribbean waters meet pristine beaches backed by coconut palms and all-inclusive resorts.
OpenThe first permanent European settlement in the Americas, where Spanish colonial rule began in the New World, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving the oldest European architecture in the hemisphere.
OpenA 16th-century sea fortress at the entrance of Puerto Plata harbor, built to protect the north coast from pirate raids and now the city's most recognizable historic monument.
OpenThe largest lake in the Dominican Republic and the entire Caribbean, a hypersaline crater lake in the southwestern highlands that supports populations of American crocodiles and Caribbean flamingos.
OpenA limestone karst landscape on the northeast coast of the Dominican Republic, with conical hills, mangrove forests, sea caves with Taino petroglyphs, and one of the Caribbean's most important humpback whale nesting grounds offshore.
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