🏨 Guided Tour in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo Activity

Guided Tour in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo

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From $60.00

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 3 hours

Departs: Dominican Republic, Dominican Republic

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Tour of the entire colonial zone from 2 to 3 hours with trained personnel identified by the Ministry of Tourism.

The tour has tickets included to the main tourist attractions and in several languages. Museum of the Royal Houses, Metropolitan Cathedral and Primate of America as well as Alcázar Colón.

What's Included

museum tickets

What's Not Included

Lunch

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 1 - 5
CHILD: Age: 6 - 12
YOUTH: Age: 13 - 17
ADULT: Age: 18 - 50
SENIOR: Age: 51 - 80

Additional Info

COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Public transportation options are available nearby
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Public transportation options are available nearby
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Museo De Las Casas Reales

The Museum of the Royal Houses or Royal Palaces, as it was called during the time of the captaincy general and the province, had two palaces as its headquarters, which date back to the 16th century. This royal palace was built by order of the Crown of Castile, in the reign of Fernando II of Aragon, on October 5, 1511, in order to house the main government offices of the time.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

The architecture of the building of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo is characterized by a Gothic style with ribbed vaults, solid walls and three doors, two of them Gothic in contrast to the third and main Gothic Plateresque style.

The cathedral contains a vast artistic treasure made up of altarpieces, paintings (including a panel of the Virgen de la Altagracia dated 1523), old cabinetry, furniture, monuments and tombstones, among other objects. The mausoleums of the archbishops of the colonial period stand out, it is also worth mentioning the tombstone of Simón Bolívar, one of the predecessors of the Liberator.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Fortaleza Ozama

The Santo Domingo Fortress or Ozama Fortress is one of the historical Cultural Monuments of the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. It was built by the Spanish during the colonial era and is the oldest fort in America.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

House of Tostado (La Casa de Tostado)

The Casa de Tostado Museum owes its name to its first owner, Francisco Tostado de la Peña, notary public of the governor. On the façade you can see a twin window in Elizabethan Gothic style, unique in America.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Calle Las Damas

Las Damas Street was the first street in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic and America.
Located in the Colonial City, it owes its name to the fact that at the beginning of the colony the ladies walked down that street, which is currently decorated with colonial tiles. This street has as attractions Ozama Fortress, La Real Audiencia, the house of Don Rodrigo de Bastidas (today the "Trampolín" children's museum), colonial houses (some with colonial coats of arms) and at the end Plaza España.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Calle El Conde

Calle El Conde is the only pedestrian street in the capital city of the Dominican Republic and the commercial center of the Colonial Zone.

Calle el Conde Santo DomingoThis one-kilometer-long road is located between Parque Independencia and Avenida Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó, and given its historic buildings it is one of the most visited tourist places in Santo Domingo.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Parque Colon

Parque Colón is one of the historic parks or plazas of the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, which served as the main party center in colonial-era society. Parque Colón is currently used as the main center for cultural activities and is also part of the Santo Domingo World Heritage Site.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Monasterio de San Francisco

The San Francisco Monastery in the city of Santo Domingo is one of the most important ruins in the Dominican Republic. It is located in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo and was declared a World Heritage Site.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Panteon Nacional

Visiting the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo you can find all the most important historical monuments of the Dominican Republic, among which is the Panteón Nacional or Panteón de la Patria, the mausoleum that houses the physical remains of the greatest Dominican heroes.

Located on Calle Las Damas, almost at the corner of Calle Las Mercedes, this enormous gray limestone building has three naves and a neoclassical-Renaissance style.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Alcazar de Colon

The Alcázar de Colón or Viceroyalty Palace of Don Diego Colón is a palace from the beginning of the 16th century, located in the Plaza de España in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic). This construction was built on a site near the cliffs that look towards the Ozama River; granted to Diego Columbus, eldest son of the discoverer of America, Christopher Columbus, by King Ferdinand the Catholic, to build a home for him and his offspring on the island of Hispaniola, which he arrived in 1509 as governor and where the Alcázar de Colón Museum currently operates.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

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