Puerto Plata

Puerto Plata Resort is located on the north-east of the island, 250 km. from the island's capital Santo Domingo. Puerto Plata combines several resorts. Playa Dorada - is located 5 kilometers from Puerto Plata - an independent, tastefully designed resort complex of 13 hotels, each of which has its own club on the Atlantic coast. Customer's service golf course, restaurants, beaches, horseback riding. Sosua - a small town located 19 kilometers from Puerto Plata, with a large selection of souvenir shops, bars and a variety of entertainment. Cabarete - a resort for young people - water sports, excellent cuisine and new acquaintances. resort of Puerto Plata enchants guests a harmonious combination of colonial, Victorian and contemporary architecture. The nature of this zone is very different from the nature of Punta Cana, you can enjoy the amazing mountain scenery, beaches of golden color and restless, ideal for windsurfing, sea. Another one of these places the name - "Amber Coast" or, as it is called the Dominicans - "Coast ambergris. It abounds black amber - amber. Beautiful beaches, water, numerous shades of iridescent turquoise, lush vegetation and the humid tropical climate, softened by the winds of the Atlantic - all of these advantages have made Amber coast in place of mass tourism. Puerto Plata lived in smuggling, and its inhabitants actively cooperated with the French and British pirates. Spanish King ordered the destruction of Puerto Plata, to put an end to robbery fishing. Only in 1742 the city revived the colonists, settlers from the Canary Islands. In those days, were built the most beautiful buildings of the city. Wooden houses in colonial style, bright colors, multicolored tropical plants give the city an exotic and elegant look. In Puerto Plata the ruins of the house of Columbus and the church, where he performed the first Mass in America. Open to visitors to the Museum of civilization Taino and the Temple of the Americas. Vacation in Puerto Plata, you can visit the Amber Museum, Fort St. Philip (Fortaleza de San Felipe), built in 1540 to protect against attacks from the sea, Independence Park, famous for its Victorian buildings, the Cathedral of St. Philip (Catedral de San Felipe), factories for the production of rum or chocolate, where you can buy gifts. In the south-west of Puerto Plata towering mountain of Monte Isabel de Toros, rising to the top of which (on a cable car), you can enjoy a beautiful view of the city and the ocean, take a walk in a botanical garden and view a huge bronze statue of Christ.