The Sun Dial, Reloj de Sol is Spanish, is located on Calle Las Damas in the small Plaza Reloj de Sol across form Casa Reales. It was erected in 1753 and is one of the oldest sun dials in all the Americas. It has two vertical dials or faces s it can tell accurate time […]
Pictures of the Day
Our favorite daily pictures and Miscellaneous pictures of Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo and Dominican Republic
Picture of the Day – Puerta de las Atarazanas Flags
Looking through the Puerta de las Atarazanas (number 31 on the Colonial Zone Map) to the Calle Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó better known as the Avenida del Puerto. The Dominican Flags are flying proudly, waving in the breeze, in the Plaza greeting the morning. (click on the picture to see it full size)
Picture of the Day – Moon and Planet over Plaza España
This morning the full moon of April, known as the “Seed Moon,” “Pink Moon,” “Sprouting Grass Moon,” “Egg Moon,” or “Fish Moon”, was still shining brightly in the early morning sky. Beside it, a small bright point in the sky, is the brightly glowing ringed planet, Saturn. Both can be seen this morning over the […]
Pictures of the Day – Red Moon Lunar Eclipse
The glowing reddish orange “blood” moon (“That red light shining onto the moon is sunlight that has skimmed and bent through Earth’s atmosphere: that is, from all the sunrises and sunsets that ring the world at any given moment,” said Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine.) was spectacular early this Saturday morning over the […]
Picture of the Day – View of the Caribbean From Above
The spectacular view from high atop the Tower of Homage/ Torre del Homenaje located inside the Fortaleza Ozama, one of the oldest forts in the Americas. This UNESCO World Heritage site is the first fort build in the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic because of its vantage point. You can see the Caribbean Sea at the […]
Picture Of The Day – Palm Sunday Sun
The Tower of Homage/ Torre del Homenaje sits majestically in the morning light as the sun shines brightly behind. The suns rays are lights rising to the heavens like arms lifted in praise to the heavens on this beautiful Palm Sunday (Domingo de Ramos in Spanish) morning. Would you like to learn how is Semana […]