Puerto Plata has been one of the most lively of the Dominican Republic, located a few kilometers from Playa Dorada, full of hotels and resorts IT (all inclusive) place cities, has been for many years the preferred place of the propertied classes Caribbean to spend your holiday. At present its tourist appeal has been eroded by the boom that is taking the area of ​​Bavaro Punta Cana. This has caused visiting Puerto Plata and its surroundings fewer tourists and is very easy to stroll around town and not stop see posters selling houses and apartment. Yet Puerto Plata no longer a recommended place to visit.

Puerto Plata is an ideal place for people seeking a holiday with all amenities at a price more than tight and close to interesting places to visit.


location near Puerto Plata

Playa Dorada is just 10 minutes east of Puerto Plata, Sosua, Cabarete, Playa Grande and Rio San Juan are located just half an hour as the international airport of Puerto Plata. Luperon and the second largest city in the Dominican Republic are a 1 hour drive.


History of Puerto Plata

On January 11, 1493 Christopher Columbus arrived in what is now known by the name of bay of Puerto Plata. From the beginning Puerto Plata was a strategic place and very important thanks to its port, which came out all agricultural products obtained from the fertile lands north of the Dominican Republic. The big trade that lived Puerto Plata, ideal for pirate attacks on pirates under the protection of the enemies of Spain, which caused the citizens of Puerto Plata, tired of harassment by pirates, obtaran to market to them before risking their lives and goods. This provoked a strong anger by the kings of Spain, in 1605 ordering the evacuation of Puerto Plata and its surroundings to prevent its settlers trading with the enemy.

A century later, the Spanish crown again gave permission for settlers to settle in Puerto Plata, mainly due to avoid, which they did, mainly French non-Spanish settlers from Haiti today. Gradually Puerto Plata was regaining its importance both economically and strategically mainly to its port, until finally in early 1990, tourism revenues were so great that outperformed their major industries, snuff, leather, sugar and maritime trade.


Origin of name of Puerto Plata

There are two versions of the origin of the name of Puerto Plata. The first one, that when Christopher Columbus discovered skirted the Dominican Republic Amber Coast to reach the current bay of Puerto Plata. Here the sun reflected in the sea giving the impression that it was a sea of ​​silver coins, hence the name.

The second says that Christopher Columbus observed a hill bathed in the bay of Puerto Plata, whose summit was always foggy, which resulted in Christopher Columbus to give him the name "Monte de Plata". This triggered that built the port on the shores of the bay this Puerto Plata is called. Today is the Monte de Plata Isabel de Torres, in honor of the Queen of Castile that sponsored trips Critobal Columbus.

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