{"id":46841,"date":"1999-12-23T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-12-23T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/christmas-in-the-colonial-city-16\/"},"modified":"1999-12-23T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-12-23T01:43:56","slug":"christmas-in-the-colonial-city-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/12\/23\/christmas-in-the-colonial-city-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in the Colonial City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Navidad 99&quot; is the celebration of Christmas organized by the Ayuntamiento de Santo Domingo (city municipality), Secretar&iacute;a de Turismo (ministry of tourism), Comisi&oacute;n de Monumentos (historic monuments commission), Oficina de Patrimonio Cultural (office of cultural heritage), and the Patronato de la Ciudad Colonial (board of the colonial city).  Activities start today, Wednesday, 1 December and continue all month long. Most of the events take place at the Parque Col&oacute;n (Isabel la Cat&oacute;lica corner Conde), the Patronato de la Ciudad Colonial-Palacio Borgell&aacute; (Isabel la Cat&oacute;lica 103) or the Palacio Consistorial (Arz. Meri&ntilde;o corner Conde), Cathedral of Santo Domingo (Arz. Meri&ntilde;o corner Arz. Nouel), Capilla de los Remedios (Calle Las Damas corner Mercedes). Today&#8217;s schedule of events is:   Wednesday, 22 December   6 pm. Christmas Sunsets. Concert by the Biblico Cristiano Choir. Directed by Eglass Francisco. Parque Col&oacute;n.  8 pm. Anahay in Concert sponsored by the Municipality of Santo Domingo. Parque Col&oacute;n.   Thursday, 23 December 4 pm. Christmas caroling along streets of the Colonial City by students of the Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de Santo Domingo. Directed by Juan Radham&eacute;s Cruz, and sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism.  6 pm. Christmas Sunsets. Concert of the Music Band of the Santo Domingo Firemen. Parque Col&oacute;n.  8 pm. Anibal de Pe&ntilde;a in Concert, sponsored by the Municipality of Santo Domingo. Parque Col&oacute;n.  10 pm. Christmas Fogata at the Plaza de San Ant&oacute;n (Restauraci&oacute;n corner Hostos), sponsored by the San Ant&oacute;n Neighborhood.   Friday, 24 December Christmas Eve. 11 pm. Christmas Eve Mass. Santo Domingo Cathedral.   Saturday, 25 December Christmas Day. 4 pm. Mass opening the Jubilee Year, ending with the Nativity Concert. Performed by the Choir of the Cathedral. Directed by Prof. Jos&eacute; Delmonte. Santo Domingo Cathedral.   Sunday, 26 December 12 noon. Mass. Cathedral of Santo Domingo.  4 pm. Christmas caroling along streets of the Colonial City by students of the Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de Santo Domingo. Directed by Juan Radham&eacute;s Cruz, and sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism. 5:30 pm. Puppet show: &quot;The Spirit of Christmas and the Wolf-Donkey-Dragon&quot; by the Teatro Papalote. Parque Col&oacute;n.  8 pm. Sonia Silvestre in Concert, accompanied by Maestro Tito Delgado. Parque Col&oacute;n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Navidad 99&quot; is the celebration of Christmas organized by the Ayuntamiento de Santo Domingo (city municipality), Secretar&iacute;a de Turismo (ministry of tourism), Comisi&oacute;n de Monumentos (historic monuments commission), Oficina de Patrimonio Cultural (office of cultural heritage), and the Patronato de la Ciudad Colonial (board of the colonial city). Activities start today, Wednesday, 1 December and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/12\/23\/christmas-in-the-colonial-city-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46841"}],"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=46841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}