Santo Domingo Colonial Zone

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — the oldest continuously inhabited European city in the Americas, its Zona Colonial a UNESCO-listed grid of 500-year-old cathedrals, forts, and cobbled streets.

Walk Calle Las Damas, the Americas' oldest paved street, past the Alcázar de Colón and the first cathedral in the New World. The Malecón waterfront promenade comes alive at night with live merengue and bachata spilling out of open-air bars.