Dominican Republic : pictures
Dominican Republic : Discover
A country that we like to think of as a huge open-air all-inclusive resort, with its paradisiacal beaches lined with coconut palms, where delicious laziness is the order of the day, the Dominican Republic is also one of the first lands "discovered" by Christopher Columbus. In fact, its history is that of the odyssey of the discovery of the New World by the Europeans, from the disastrous first encounter with the "Indians" to slavery and successive independences... The eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola are the breeding ground of particularities as much geological as faunistic, as social as artistic, but also linguistic and gastronomic, and it is indeed all this richness that the files presented here propose you to explore. You'll also learn more about merengue and bachata - two styles of music and dance that originated in the country - and the art of the Dominican cigar.
