Travel – Page 256

Baseball fans staying in La Romana and who want to see the passion Dominicans have for baseball will be delighted to hear that the city’s Francisco Micheli Stadium has been spruced up and is even better than before. As reported in El Caribe, the ballpark playing field was improved with new Bermuda grass and the …

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Enjoy the best of Dominican Fashion when Dominicana Moda kicks off on the runways set up at the Garden Tent of Santo Domingo’s Hotel Embajador for the eighth consecutive year. Organizers Mirka Morales, Socrates McKinney and Fidel Lopez announced that the event would be held from 21 to 26 October. There will be fashion shows …

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The Dominican Winter Professional Baseball Season starts on 18 October with games between the Tigres del Licey and the Leones del Escogido at the Quisqueya Ball Park in Santo Domingo at 7:30pm. Last week, the six teams have begun to announce the start of training to prepare the players for the October through December regular …

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Taste Santo Domingo, now in its fifth year, will be held at the Sambil Mall in Santo Domingo on 3, 4, 5 and 6 October. The event includes culinary talks, exhibition of products, gastronomy forum, workshops and the Grand Tasting. Learn about cooking from Xabier Gutierrez from the famous Arzak Restaurant in San Sebastian, Spain …

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Are your bookings not looking good? Call in the Russians. New research shows they decide on their holiday destinations at the very last minute. ITB Berlin researchers say that among all the world’s main travel markets, Russians are the most likely to book their holidays at the last minute. While booking one’s holidays at short …

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Teen idol Justin Bieber has included the Dominican Republic for a 22 October 2013 performance in Santo Domingo. The 19-year old Canadian pop phenomenon will be performing at the Felix Sanchez Olympic Stadium. The time is set for 7pm. He will be performing in Santo Domingo on Tuesday after a Saturday show in San Juan, …

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The music concert of the year in Puerto Plata, this year’s Dominican Republic Jazz Festival is bringing former New York Yankee and critically acclaimed jazz musician Bernie Williams, along with jazz legends Abraham Laboriel, Sr. (Mexico), Marco Pignataro (Italy), Ramon Vazquez (Puerto Rico), Grammy Award winner Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez (Cuba), Rufus Reid (USA), George …

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The La Romana Bayahibe Hotel Association and the regional tourism cluster are organizing the 10K Bayahibe run for this coming Saturday, 28 September. Registration is RD$500 and the run starts at 5pm. The categories are Overall Men and Women, the first five places RD$15,000, RD$12,000, RD$9,000, RD$6,000 and RD$4,000. The first three winners in the …

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Sports tourism continues in Santo Domingo. The 5th Ibero-American and Caribbean Karate Tournament is being held in Santo Domingo from 3-6 October 2013 with competitors from 24 countries. The event is organized by the Dominican Karate Federation and will take place at the Volleyball Pavilion at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center.

The leading Santiago museum, the Centro Leon has chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Dominican Republic’s main founding father, Juan Pablo Duarte, with an exhibition that also commemorates its own 10th anniversary. The exhibition will run from Thursday 3 October to Tuesday 31 December 2013. “Duarte. Collective Visions in Related …

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