La Romana: Caribbean Vacations

La Romana  

Let yourself go with the charm of a wonderful place and special and enjoy its beautiful beaches with white sand, enjoy your vacation in an incredible place, come with your family, with friends here you will spend great. If you are looking for a city that in addition to hotels, bars, restaurants and nightclubs. Also count with amazing places to discover and enjoy the most of your holidays, a place with many attractions and exotic places.  You can come to La Romana, because I assure you that you are going to love the place. You can visit the different places of the city doing a tour of all the monuments and interesting places where highlights the culture of this city.

When you come to La Romana, you may want to settle in the resort of Bayahibe, because here you can enjoy the best hospitality on the part of people who is waiting for you to give you a warm and friendly welcome. I assure you that you will return to your home with the best possible experience and also you will want to return to holiday in this place, because you will stay with a great satisfaction and with the desire to return to enjoy once more of everything good that you offers city of La Romana and its its hotels and resorts in Bayahibe.

Both in the restaurants of the city of La Romana, as also in the hotels in Bayahibe, you will find the dishes of your choice as the restaurants of the hotels as well as the restaurants of the city of La Romana have specialists in the culinary art which have the skills to prepare different dishes known at the global level. If what you are looking for is the french gastronomy you can ask for the different dishes of that country. Such as:

1.      Aligot

2.      Quenelle

3.      Cassoulet

4.      Fondue de queso

5.      Ratatouille

6.      Coq au vin

7.      Vichyssoise

All this in Bayahibe, a true tropical paradise.  Bayahibe is hotel sector that belongs to La Romana. The Romana is a city of the Dominican Republic and is located in the southeast of the country. The main engine that drives and moves the economy of La Romana is the production of sugar cane, then is the cattle to produce both milk and meat and finally is the tourism. In the industrial field, the main production is the production of sugar.  Tourism is of utmost importance since it has beautiful beaches, hotels, restaurants, gift shops and places of entertainment to go and pass very well between friends. The tourists who come to La Romana visit the town briefly thanks to that account with a maritime port where arrive cruises ferries of the Caribbean, which can last from hours and days in the city as visitors.

Tourists can visit and explore the various points of the city, places like for example the central park, the paseo Jose Marti, the obelisk or even entering the shops of the city and buy something as a reminder of when they visited the city of La Romana. Tourism in the city of La Romana is also a very important factor for this province as due to the large amount of hotels and tourist attractions generates income for the province and many jobs for the people who live in the city of La Romana. One of the most important companies and large and that generates more jobs, is the company Central Romana, is a Agro-Industrial Company, tourist and working in free trade zones; this employs more than 25,000 people and has a history of more than a hundred years.

Attractions of La Romana

Among the many attractions that owns the Romana is Altos de Chavon, a magical place and incredible that dazzle with its beauty to whom the visit, a small town is neither more nor less than an imitation of a Mediterranean village Spanish or Italian with houses built in limestone. It is a refuge for many international artists and from the village there is fantastic view of the Chavon River. The small village of Altos de Chavon account with several restaurants, a church where celebrities have contracted marriage, luxury boutiques and a Regional Archaeological Museum with a large collection of objects Taínos.

In Altos de Chavon there is a spectacular amphitheater made of stone with a peculiar Roman style, with a capacity to accommodate comfortably up to four thousand people. The Amphitheater is used to hold different events and concerts. The first person or better said the first artist that singing here in the amphitheater of Altos De Chavon was Frank Sinatra along with Carlos Santana who made the opening concert.

They have also sung artists such as Julio Iglesias, Juan Luis Guerra, Marc Anthony, and famous singers and bands of merengue, salsa and bachata have acted in this place. Altos de Chavon accounts with the school of art and design of greater prestige of the Caribbean, this school of design has an affiliation with Parsons School of Design in New York which gives greater preparation to graduates of this. In addition, this villa is also appended to the resort of Casa de Campo.

La Marina de Casa de Campo

   Another attraction is the Marina of field house that is located in the mouth of the Chavon River, in the Caribbean Sea, built by the Italian architect Gianfranco Fini.

History of La Romana 

    The city of La Romana was founded in 1897, when he was granted a concession to a Cuban signature by the National Congress to establish an oil refinery, In its origins, The Roman was a city decadent and without a future for its inhabitants.  This changed from the year 1917 thanks to the construction of a great mill owned by Italian emigrants from the region of Rome, Lazio which allowed obtaining sugar from the cane from the large plantations that still today surround the Romana. It should not be forgotten that today, after the tourism, the sugar industry, is the most revenue generated for the population. 

The putting into operation of the sugar mill coincided with the increase in the price of sugar in the whole world, which caused the entrepreneurs need a lot of hand man, many poor families of the interior to Dominican moved to La Romana in search of a better life. At the beginning of 1960, Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. bought the sugar mill and started to invest in the livestock industry. In parallel, invested approximately 20 million dollars to rebuild the Roman as well as in building schools, clinics, houses and other infrastructure for their Dominican workers.

In the middle of the decade of 1970 the American conglomerate Gulf & Western Industries, began to sell their assets Dominicans and at the same time built what today is one of the largest exclusive resorts of the Dominican Republic, Casa de Campo.  One of the inhabitants of La Romana, Hector Castillo Figueroa, who immigrated to Spain in the years 1960-1970, became the first African American edil of Spain, when he was elected, on 3 April 1979 as mayor of the city of Isla Cristina by the party of the UCD.  The fact motivated is that both cities, the Roman and Isla Cristina, hermanaran in the years 1980.

The city of La Romana owes its name to a former Roman Balance of great size that in the sixteenth century served to weigh the goods transiting through the port, was very important at that time and it was owned of a family originating in Rome. La Romana is located an hour and a half west of Punta Cana and an hour and a half to the east of the capital, Santo Domingo, the nearest city is San Pedro de Macoris, half an hour away, and Juan Dolio, approximately forty minutes. La Romana is also very close to Bayahibe, 25 minutes, and is the nearest location to visit the islands of Saona and Catalina. 

In this city you can find the famous resort of Casa de campo with impressive hotels and villas to relax and forget about the problems and delivered completely to leisure and letting themselves be meet by an expert in the needs of the people who want to have fun in an exquisite and with much popularity place. It enjoys the luxury in its maximum expression vacationing in Casa de Campo or if you prefer to live and stay at Casa de Campo you can buy a house and enjoy some of the best golf courses in the world.  

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