Santiago de los Cabelleros, is the second and most important town of the Dominican Republic.Located in the province of Santiago, Santiago de los Caballeros,is one of the oldest cities belonging to the caribbean island of the Hispaniola, home of about 600,000 people. From about 70 square kilometers of its metropolitan area , 36 kilometers are urbanized.
Santiago is famous abroad because of its tobacco crops and long tradition related to the growing,harvest, manucfaturing and trading of this important item, in the comsumption market of luxury goods. Here are produced variaties that include blended tobacco, burly, raw tobacco leaves and black tobacco.
The factories that manucfature the best cigars of the Dominican Republic are concentraded here, so they feel proud of offering to the world the same symblism of our aboriginals, smoking the pipe of peace. The Dominican Republic produces two thirds of the so-called premiun cigars,manucfatured hand-made in the world market.
This town, which is also called the Heart City, can be visited from santo domingo, throug trasnportaton means as caribe tours, metro tours, terra bus and others and if you drive your own vehicule, you may take the Duarte highway from south to north and entering santiago you will find the monument to the heroes of the restauration, an imposing structure made of white marble that welcomes the visitors. You may buy in Santiago works of art, fine articraft, embroidery, hand-made waiving, jewelry and the best cigars. You just take a walk by the El Sol street and the Zona Rosa.
Others interesting visits may include the tobacco museum and the first cigars factory named La Aurora, established in the country from 1903, the museum of the city of santiago, located in a luxury victorian palace, The Tomas Morel museum of folkloric art, the Yoryi Morel museum, master of the Costumbrismo, the country's customs, the Circuit for the Monument and the Cultural Center, a visit to the rum destilleries and to the waterfall Cascada De Agua, fabulous for all the family.
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