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The Cathedral of Santa María los angeles Menor within the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo is devoted to St. Mary of the Incarnation. It is the oldest cathedral within the Americas, started in 1512 and finished in 1540.citation needed It is the Cathedral of the Archbishop of Santo Domingo who has the honorary title of Primate of the Americas because Santo Domingo was the first Catholic diocese hooked up inside the New World. It is placed among Calle Arzobispo Merino and Isabel l. A.

Católica, subsequent to Columbus Park inside the metropolis of Santo Domingo de Guzman. The Cathedral is fronted with a golden-tinted coral limestone façade, the church combines elements of both Gothic and Baroque with a few lavish plateresque patterns as exemplified via the excessive altar chiseled out of silver. There is likewise a treasury which has an first rate artwork series of ancient woodcarvings, furnishings, funerary monuments, silver, and jewellery.