Second Storey balcony – Alcazar de Colon (Palacio de Diego Colon), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Diego’s wife was Spanish King Ferdinand’s niece (Maria de Toldeo). The guide mentioned that Diego had a separate bedroom and they had 5 children. It is important that tourists know such things :-).
Furniture carved from local mahogany.
This painting of Columbus and his son, Diego, was painted in 1957 by the Spanish painter Rafael Pellicer.
All school in Santo Domingo have school uniforms. All public schools have the same blue uniform. Private schools also have uniforms but the colours are different.
