{"id":164124,"date":"2021-09-06T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T11:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=164124"},"modified":"2021-09-06T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:15:23","slug":"president-abinader-tours-the-colonial-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/06\/president-abinader-tours-the-colonial-city\/","title":{"rendered":"President Abinader tours the Colonial City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Luis-Abinader-visita-Zona-Colonial-Presidencia-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164152\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader was photographed saluting families, couples and tourists as he toured the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, walking from Atarazana street to the Columbus Park on Friday, 3 September 2021. The Presidency last month announced the start of a US$90 million InterAmerican Development Bank program that will renovate a large number of the housing and historic buildings in the historic area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We must transform the Colonial City and make it a must-see for all Dominicans and tourists to develop tourism in the Dominican Republic,&#8221; were the words of President Luis Abinader when starting the tour of the Colonial City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President said that to know the history of this iconic destination, which has so much to offer, is to know the country&#8217;s history. He referred to the Colonial City as a place full of history, museums and culinary attractions. He said the new initiative will benefit of businesses, residents and visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abinader toured the city with the ministers of Tourism David Collado and Culture, Carmen Heredia and city mayor Carolina Mejia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/presidente-abinader-busca-que-la-ciudad-colonial-sea-la-visita-obligada-de-dominicanos-y\">Presidency<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/presidente-abinader-recorre-calles-de-la-ciudad-colonial\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 September 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luis Abinader was photographed saluting families, couples and tourists as he toured the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, walking from Atarazana street to the Columbus Park on Friday, 3 September 2021. The Presidency last month announced the start of a US$90 million InterAmerican Development Bank program that will renovate a large number of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/06\/president-abinader-tours-the-colonial-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164154,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164124\/revisions\/164154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}