The Royal Court in the Casas Reales Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo was the first centre of Spanish Power in the Americas with Columbus the first governor and his son the third It contains a staggering set of firsts in the Americas - the first cathedral, university, monastery and nunnery. But here is a picture of the lovingly created governor's court in its 18th century form, in the Casas Reales built as the administrative centre of the West Indies between 1503 and 1520.