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Hours | Cathedral Mon-Sat 9am-4:30pm; Mass Sun noon and 5pm, Mon and Wed-Sat 5pm; treasury Mon-Sat 9am-4pm | |
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Location | Between calles Arzobispo Meriño and Isabel La Católica (on the south side of Columbus Sq.), | |
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Phone | 809/682-3848 | |
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Prices | Admission RD$30 | |
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The oldest cathedral in the Americas was begun in 1514 and completed in 1540. With a gold coral limestone facade, the church combines elements of both the Gothic and baroque styles. It also contains a high altar partially chiseled out of silver in the plateresque style. (Plateresque is a decorative 16th-c. Spanish style characterized by elaborate ornamentation in low relief that's suggestive of silver plate.) In 1992, the cathedral was designated as the centerpiece for a celebration of the 500th anniversary of the European colonization of America.
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Frommer's Portable Dominican Republic, 5th Edition
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