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Santo Domingo Este

Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.

Santo Domingo Este
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The place

Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. It has one municipal district, San Luis.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Santo Domingo Este

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Fortaleza Ozama

    The Ozama Fortress, also formerly known as the city wall's Homage tower, is one of the surviving sections of the Walls of Santo Domingo, which is recognized by UNESCO as being the oldest military construction of European origin in the Americas. It was built between 1502–1508 by the Spanish at the entrance to Santo Domingo's Ciudad Colonial, Dominican Republic, and overlooking the Ozama River.

    1.6 km · early sixteenth-century fortress built by the Spaniards · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Alcázar de Colón

    The Alcázar de Colón is the first fortified European palace built in the Americas. Located in the colonial area of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, it forms part of the Ciudad Colonial, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    1.3 km · first fortified Spanish castle in the Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Basílica Catedral Metropolitana Santa María de la Encarnación

    The Cathedral of the Americas, Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cathedral Basilica of Santa María la Menor or Minor Basilica of Santa María de la Encarnación, officially known as the Minor Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Saint Mary of the Incarnation or Annunciation, in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo is dedicated to St. Mary of the Incarnation.

    1.8 km · catholic cathedral of Santo Domingo, Dominica Republic · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Columbus Lighthouse

    Columbus Lighthouse is a mausoleum monument dedicated to Christopher Columbus, located in Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic. Construction began in 1986, based on plans drawn in 1931 by Scottish architect J.L. Gleave.

    900 m · mausoleum, museum in Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Palacio Nacional

    Palacio Nacional is a building in Santo Domingo, that houses the offices of the executive branch of the Dominican Republic.

    2.9 km · government building in the Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez

    Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez is an open-air multi-purpose stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Opened in 1974 for the XII Central American & Caribbean Games and renovated for the 2003 Pan American Games, it is the largest stadium in the Dominican Republic.

    4.8 km · multi-purpose stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Autonomous University of Santo Domingo

    Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo is a public university system in Dominican Republic, with its flagship campus in Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood of Santo Domingo and regional campuses in many cities of the country.

    5.4 km · public university in the Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple

    The Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was the first temple to be built in the church's Caribbean Area and its 99th worldwide.

    5.1 km · temple of the LDS church · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Dominican National Pantheon

    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.

    1.5 km · monument in Santo Domingo · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Monasterio de San Francisco

    Monasterio de San Francisco in Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Dominican Republic, is a monastery that was built between 1508–1560, with the arrival of the Franciscan fathers. The ruin is one of the most important of the city.

    1.6 km · 16th century monastery in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Santo Domingo Este

Airports
Las Américas (SDQ), 22 km · Casa De Campo (LRM), 102 km · Cibao (STI), 128 km
Stations
Port of Santo Domingo, 1.6 km · Juan Pablo Duarte (Santo Domingo Metro), 4.4 km · Amín Abel (Santo Domingo Metro), 5.4 km · Centro de los Héroes (Santo Domingo Metro), 6.9 km · Ulises Francisco Espaillat (Santo Domingo Metro), 7.7 km
  • Santiago → Santo Domingo Este
    5776 km · quickest by air, 14h 45m · CLP$471,360–730,630
  • La Romana → Santo Domingo Este
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · $8–12
  • Punta Cana → Santo Domingo Este
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · $14–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Santo Domingo Este

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Santo Domingo Este. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOr, go up to the second floor at the Arrivals (at the very end), where a minivan will accommodate up to 8 passengers for a ride for RD$70 (pesos) for 1/2 hour to the Zona Colonial (only).
  • Get inThere is ferry service to and from Mayaguez as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Get inThe former company, Ferries del Caribe is now out of business and the new provider is called America Cruise Ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Santo Domingo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    470 km
  2. 02
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    554 km
  3. 03
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    707 km
  4. 04
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    782 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,361 km

If you know how people move in Santo Domingo Este – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Santo Domingo Este

Santo Domingo Este is 3 km from Santo Domingo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Puerta del CondeMain gate to Colonial City Santo Domingo2.5 km
  • La Victoriahuman settlement in the Dominican Republic7.7 km
  • Villa Mellahuman settlement in the Dominican Republic7.7 km
  • San CarlosSector in the city of Santo Domingo in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic2.3 km
  • Bella Vistaneighbourhood of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic8.3 km
  • Cristo Reyhuman settlement in the Dominican Republic5.5 km