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Courageous priest who protested against the Spanish extermination of the Tainos to the King of Spain.
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The Republic’s biggest church was designed in the 1950s to replace the smaller original as the site of the annual January 21 pilgrimage in honor of the Virgin of Altagracia, the nation’s patron saint (see Virgen de Altagracia).
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A rectangular house of wooden walls and thatched roof, widely seen in rural areas and villages.
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The Taino people arrive on the island they call Quisqueya after a centuries-long canoe-borne migration up the Caribbean archipelago from the Orinoco Delta in South America. A peaceful village-based society of fishermen and farmers, they worship gods of nature and the afterlife.
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One of many Taino words (canoa ) and inventions still in use today.
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Marooned on the industrial eastern side of the Ozama River, this tiny chapel is a reminder of the country’s original capital. The existing church is a simple whitewashed structure, with three brick portals, and dates from the 19th century, but the first wooden chapel was built in 1498.
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The building, with a fine courtyard, housed a Jesuit-run school of rhetoric.
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A mainstay of the pre-Columbian diet, this root is poisonous unless properly prepared into flour.
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Look out for the fine carvings on the 1895 cathedral’s mahogany doors, showing biblical scenes associated with St. James. Although it’s often closed, the three-aisled interior is worth a visit for the marble tomb of Ulíses Heureaux (see Ulíses Heureaux (1845–1899)), and its modern windows by contemporary artist Rincón Mora.
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A symmetrical blend of old and new, the recently renovated cathedral dominates the historic center of town, with its two whitewashed, reinforced-concrete towers visible from afar (see San Felipe Cathedral).
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