Alcazar de Colon

The Alcazar de Colón, or Columbus Alcazar, positioned in Santo Domingo's Ciudad Colonial, Dominican Republic, is the oldest Viceregal residence in the Americas, and bureaucracy part of the Ciudad Colonial UNESCO's World Heritage Site. It became constructed on a plot close to the rock islet that look toward the Ozama River, granted to Diego Columbus, firstborn son of the discoverer of the Americas, Christopher Columbus, by way of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, to construct a dwelling for him and his descendants on the island Hispaniola, to which he arrived in 1509 as governor.

The constructing houses the Museo Alcázar de Diego Colon, whose series famous the Caribbean's most essential ensemble of European overdue medieval and Renaissance works of art, which had been received within the 1950s. The Tapestry collection is especially vital and precise within the Caribbean, and consists of pieces produced by the Flemish Van Den Hecke family from cartouches created by using Charles Le Brun. The Alcázar is the maximum visited museum in Santo Domingo.