Puerto Plata resort is located in the northeast of the island, at a distance of 250 kilometers northeast from the capital - Santo Domingo. The small province recently turned into a popular resort - at the end of the nineties, it became a popular place to relax visitors from all over the world, which rushed here behind the hot sun, beautiful traditional music, unique nature and dishes of the National Kitchen. Among other things, tourists who come here are very love to get acquainted with the sophisticated residents and shopping.
Those who visited Puerto fee are fascinated by an elegant mixture of architectic traditions - colonial, victorian and modern. The natural world on this territory is very different from the situation in Punta Cana, in the local locality you can admire interesting mountain views, golden beaches and a restless sea, which is excellent for lovers of windsurfing. These places are also called the "Amber Coast", or, in the local - "shore of Ambra". There is a lot of black amber - "Ambra".
Amber Coast transformed into an active tourist tourist center due to its undoubted advantages - excellent beaches, water, iridescent and diverse turquoise tones, luxurious vegetation and wet tropic climates, which soften the Atlantic wind.
The resort of Puerto Plata is located cozy hotels operating on the "All Inclusive" system.
The city has its own airport, which is twenty-minute drive from most of the hotels. Puerto board consists of several resort territories, tourists are most famous as Playa Dorada, Kabarete and Sosua.
The greatest tourist resort is Playa Dorada, which is ten minutes from Puerto Plata - most hotels on the north shore are concentrated here. Playa Dorada, or Golden Beach, is characterized by an excellent coast, this area is perfect for safe pastime among the luxurious plant in the tropics. This beach is one of the most exclusive tourist towns of the entire amber shore.
This resort ensemble includes fifteen small hotel buildings built in the form of the letter "U", their location is a common beach with golden sand. Tourists can actively relax in the golf center here, as well as visit the shopping center, cinema, bars, restaurants and discos.
At the end of the fifteenth century Bartolomeo Columbus - the brother of the famous primary retardant of America - founded the city of San Felipe de Puerto Plata. In Spanish Puerto, the board means "Silver Port". Explain such a choice of the name is easy - it is worth just walking in the evening and wait for the sunset. It is very important to correctly catch the moment - it was then that you can see that the setting shine stains the coast of silver color.
At least the city and had a rather romantic name, but he existed at the same time at the expense of smugglers, almost all of the local people were involved in Pirate Deliche. That's why the King of Spain at one time and commanded destroy the settlement.
And in 1742, the city was again rebuilt with colonists - immigrants from the Canary Islands, that period was characterized by the bloom of Puerta. In those days, the most beautiful local buildings were erected, agriculture developed.
Wooden colonial style buildings, Flowers and other exotic Flora representatives create an exotic and iridescent picture of the urban situation. In Puerto, the board was saved Ruins at home Columbus And Ta church which served the first Mass on the American continent. Tourists can visit Museum of the Civilization of the Indian Indian Taine and in the American Temple.
La Isabella National Park
At a distance of fifty kilometers to the west of the resort of Puerto, near the base of the mountain peak, there was a terrain on which Christopher Columbus was founded by the first settlement - La Isabella, called him to the glory of Queen Isabella in the first Catholic. In these places, the European settlement was erected - the first in the new light, the first pier, there was the first Christian burial and the first church building. This old territory is divided into three plots - Military - Fort is located here and remnants of the house, where Columbus lived, as well as the warehouse, cemetery and church; The locality, where previously allegedly was the port and the place where the indigenous population lived - there were found things used in everyday life and related to the pre-columbotic era.
Fort San Felipe
This building is one of the earliest examples of the European military architectural art of that period in the new light. He was erected in the sixteenth century on a small cliff, which snapped over the entrance to the port - the building was supposed to serve him to protect against pirate attacks. In Fort, there is a museum and a camera, where they contained Juan Pablo Duarte - "Father of the Fatherland".
"Ocean WORLD"
"Ocean World", or "Cochet" is a thematic park, where you can visit Dolphinariums, see, sea lions, sharks, tigers, sea devils, piras, exotic representatives of the world of feathery ... Your attention shows the show with the participation of dolphins and sea lions, In addition, there is an opportunity to dive into an aquarium where there are more than four thousand fish of different types. You can feed the seaside predators - sharks, as well as two huge Bengal tigers.
During the rest in Puerta pay, you have the opportunity to visit Amber Museum, in Independence Park who became famous for the buildings in Victorian style. Visit Factory for the manufacture of chocolate or rum , purchase souvenirs relative and relatives. In the southwestern part of the resort snacks Mount Monte Isabel de Toros - If you reach her vertex with the cuelaisome, it can enjoy, contemplating a wonderful picture of the city and the ocean, and also go to the botanical garden and inspect the huge Figure of Christ made of bronze ...
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