La Puerta de la Misericordia
Filed Under (Colonial Zone, La Puerta de La Misericordia) by admin on 27-10-2008
Tagged Under : Colonial Zone, Dominican Republic, Door of the Mercy, La Puerta de La Misericordia, Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo City has between its different spaces the so called Colonial Zone, and inside this zone we meet La Puerta de la Misericordia (Door of the Mercy) which dates back from the 16th century.
In 1568 La Puerta de la Misericordia was turned into Bastion, since it had a great importance in the year 1655 when the troops of Vennables and Penn tried to invade Santo Domingo City.
For 1844 by the time of the independence of the Dominican Republic, when headed by the Patrician ones, Juan Pablo Duarte, Matías Ramon Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sanchez decided to put end to the Haitian domination, the patrician Matías Ramon Mella gave the famous blow to give step to the revolt of the Dominicans against the Haitian dynasty in La Puerta de la Misericordia, that tape-worm subdued to the Dominican Republic.
In 1886 La Puerta de la Misericordia was blocked during the occupation on the part of the Frenchmen.
It was named La Puerta de la Misericordia during 1842, and for 1859 there was constructed a hermitage which was taking the same name.
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