Dominican Republic, the top tourist destination in the Caribbean

It was in Santo Domingo in 1496 — four years after Christopher Columbus wrecked his ship, the Santa Maria, on the Atlantic coast of the island — that his brother Bartholomew founded the city that was to become the center of Spanish culture and commerce in the New World. Today, Santo Domingo remains vibrantly Hispanic: fiery, frenetic and pulsating to the beat of merengue 365 nights a year.  Read more at Kentucky.com 

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