Santiago and the Cibao Valley Features

Santiago and the Cibao Valley Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Centro de Leon. Santiago's impressive art museum is worth several hours of your time, and your visit can include lunch and a tour of the replicated... read more

• Mask Maker
  

  Just days before Carnaval, young mask maker Miguel Morine Morte was still working feverishly to finish some masks for a La Vegan troupe. His... read more

• Bathroom Break
  

  All the capitaleños (Santa Domingoans) stop at Parador Jaracanda on their journey between Santo Domingo and Santiago because it has some... read more

• A Cigar Family's Charitable Trust
  

  What you see when you drive the dirt road to Chateau de la Fuente, the tobacco plantation of Arturo Fuente Cigars, looks like a dream vision... read more

• Japanese Colonists and Constanza—A Success Story
  

  In the foreground of a black-and-white photo of the first ship carrying Japanese colonists to their new home in the Dominican Republic in 1956... read more