page_title: Fortaleza Ozama
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Fortaleza Ozama / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Scale model of Fortaleza Ozama circa 1785, Ciudad Colonial de Santo Domingo. The Catedral Primada de América is shown in the top at the side of of the main city square (today's Parque Colón). Model made by Don Tomás López and exhibited at the new Museo de las Casas Reales. Dominican Republic.
context_page_description: The Ozama Fortress was built in 1502 by the Spanish at the entrance to Santo Domingo's Ciudad Colonial, Dominican Republic, and overlooking the Ozama River. Named after this river, the castle, also referred to as "La Fortaleza" or "The Fortress". It was declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, together with the other historical monuments of the Ciudad Colonial.
  Recognized by the UNESCO for being the oldest military construction of European origin in the Americas. It was built between 1502-1508.
context_section_description: The Fortaleza is located at the end of Las Damas Street.
  The statue in front of the building depicts Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, governor of the fortress from 1533 to 1557, and author of Historia General y Natural de las Indias. The statue was imported from Salamanca, Spain in 1977, and was made by the artist Joaquín Vaquero Turcio
  The central tower of the building is 18-meter high, with walls 2-meter thick. The fortified walls around the building are 3-meter thick, except on the river-side where the walls are 1-meter thick. The cement holding the stoned walls together is a mixture of gypsum, clay, lime and the blood of animals.
caption: The length of the city walls in 1785. The Ozama Fortress was its main feature. Model exhibits at the Museo de las Casas Reales in Santo Domingo
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