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Things To Do / Cosas Para Hacer
Restaurant - Buche Perico
Buche Perico spreads under the magnificent glasshouse that lights up when night falls. The restaurant looks Dominican and the menu follows suit, offering typical dishes with a twist. For starters, please your appetite with octopus carpaccio with orange and dried tomatoes. Next, try the fish ceviche with coconut and coriander, fresh tuna from Ocoa served with saffron risotto, or the Buche Perico, a typical Moca corn and sausage stew, for a gastronomic journey across the country.
Restaurant - Café El Conde
You can enjoy our local and International cuisine, pleasant family atmosphere, with the best and most exquisite of our culinary culture, including a good Dominican coffee.
Restaurant - Pat’e Palo
Experience living history at this charming European brasserie, housed in a space that’s thought to have been the first tavern in the Americas. Opened in 1505 by a Dutch pirate, Pata de Hierro was a favorite hangout of buccaneers on Plaza España, facing the Alcazar de Colón. Since then, not a single change has been made to the interior’s original brick arches or stone walls, making it easy to imagine rowdy nights here in the 16th century. Close your eyes and picture the pirates as you dig into everything from charcuterie boards and tuna carpaccio to hearty short ribs, grilled Chilean sea bass, and squid ink risotto with langoustines.
Restaurant -Don Nestor Parrillada Zona Colonial
Top rated steak house in the heart of the Colonial Zone! Excellent! Parrilladas Don Ernesto definitely has every cut of meat your heart desires.
Coffee Shop - Casa Barista & Co.
Casa Barista & Co, is not a regular coffee shop. As is evident throughout the world, there are endless options when it comes to coffee, specially industrialized corporations like Starbucks and Juan Valdez to name some Casa Barista is the opposite. This coffee would be what is called Specialty Coffee. One of our main passions is to bring coffee back to the basics and to use quality ingredients for each step. We firmly believe that, if the raw material is not good enough, the coffee is not what it can really be, no matter what cream, sweetener or syrup is added. Everything boils down to two things: The freshness and quality of water, and selection of coffee at it's origin. No reservation needed.
Jalao
Eat surrounded by the vibrant ambiance of Taíno, African, and Spanish influences that blend together in a flavorful splash of Dominican culture. In a courtyard built for live music and dancing, experience the timeless atmosphere of the historic Ciudad Colonial of Santo Domingo. They have live music Wednesday - Sunday it is a must visit.
KAH KOW Experience
Get to know the origins of the delicious chocolate at our Holographic Theater, then in our Mystical Forest taste the delicious cacao bean and learn about the post-harvesting techniques. Continue the journey and get into our Sensory Room where you’ll use your five senses to appreciate the ingredients of our exquisite chocolate.
Museum of Rum
The Museum of Rum and Sugarcane is an interesting source of information on the history of the clothing that was used in colonial times to extract juice from sugar cane for processing Dominican rum. The Dominican Rum Museum was created by the late rum master César García with the aim of filling a cultural void in society, so that people know about its roots, its history, what its emblematic points are, as is the case of the rum currently, it is directed by his son José A. García.
Museum of the Royal Houses
The Museo de las Casas Reales is one of the important cultural monuments built during the colonial era in Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic. It is located in the Colonial district of Santo Domingo.
National Pantheon of the Dominican Republic
The National Pantheon was built from 1714 to 1746 by the Spaniard Geronimo Quezada y Garçon and was originally a Jesuit church. The structure was constructed in the neoclassic-renaissance style. Today, the structure stands as a national symbol of the Dominican Republic and serves as the final resting place of the Republic's most honored citizens. This is across the street from the hotel.
Alcázar de Colón
The Alcázar de Colón, or Columbus Alcazar is the first fortified European palace built in the Americas. It is located in the Dominican Republic's colonial area of Santo Domingo city, and forms part of the Ciudad Colonial UNESCO's World Heritage Site. It was built between 1510 and 1514 mostly in a Gothic and Renaissance style. It is the only known residence of a member of the Christopher Columbus family in the New World, his first-born son Diego Columbus,[1][2] whose children Juana, Isabel, Luis and Christopher were born in the palace. Diego Columbus died in Spain in 1526 but María Álvarez de Toledo, his widow, remained there until her death in 1549. Three generations of the Columbus family inhabited the residence, possibly until the late 16th century.
Catedral Primada de América
Built between 1510 and 1540, the first cathedral of the Americas—known as Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora de la Encarcación o Anunciación, Primada de América—continues to stand tall in all of its glory over the heart of the Colonial City. The 500-year-old Gothic-style building continues to serve as the most important site for official ceremonies, and religious celebrations. Touring the interior reveals the cathedral’s ornate Gothic ceiling, colonial period oil paintings, sacred chapel rooms, as well as an area with gravestones containing the remains of archbishops. The remains of Christopher Columbus were found here in the 19th century. This is where the wedding ceremony will take place.