page_title: Reales Atarazanas (Santo Domingo)
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Reales Atarazanas (Santo Domingo) / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: President Danilo Medina cutting the ribbon at the reopening of Museo de las Atarazanas Reales, Ciudad Colonial Santo Domingo, December 12, 2019 Español: Presidente Danilo Medina cortando la cinta en el acto de inaguración del restaurado Museo de las Atarazanas Reales, Ciudad Colonial Santo Domingo, 12 de diciembre de 2019
context_page_description: The Reales Atarazanas is a waterside building that housed the shipyards, warehouses, customs house and tax offices of the old port of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was the property of the Spanish Crown. Begun in 1509, the Atarazanas is the oldest building of its type still standing in America, and one of a handful remaining in the Spanish world, amongst which are the Atarazanas Reales de Barcelona, in Barcelona, the Atarazanas Reales de Sevilla, in Seville and the Atarazanas del Grao in Valencia.
  The Atarazanas building is part of Colonial City of Santo Domingo World Heritage Site, and after full restoration in 2018, today houses the Museo de las Atarazanas Reales, which reopened in December 2019 and exhibits artifacts recovered from underwater archaeology and other artifacts from colonial shipwrecks around Hispaniola island and the naval history of the Dominican Republic.
context_section_description: The Reales Atarazanas is located north of the Alcázar de Colón in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo. The building in this small neighborhood contained offices and storage spaces where the mercantile activity of the city was carried out, and where the expeditions to the American mainland were stocked with provisions before their departure. The main street is Calle de las Atarazanas (Atarazanas Street) which begins at the riverside Puerta de las Atarazanas (Atarazanas Gate), which is believed to have been used exclusively for the Atarazanas. 
  It was reconstructed in the 1970s and restored between 2014 and 2018 at a cost of US$2.6 million. Today houses the Museo de las Atarazanas Reales (MAR), which reopened on December 12, 2019 and exhibits artifacts recovered from underwater archaeology and other artifacts from colonial shipwrecks around Hispaniola island and the naval history of the Dominican Republic.
caption: President Danilo Medina cutting the ribbon at the reopening of the Atarazanas Reales Museum, December 12, 2019
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