He Ministry of Tourism opened this Friday the sections of the 19 de Marzo and Hostos streets in the Colonial Cityareas in which he also presented the stabilization works of the historic monastery of San Francisco.
Both interventions are part of the advances of the Street Rehabilitation project which runs on the historic centervisited by thousands of tourists throughout the year.
The opening to traffic of the March 19 streetsbetween Archbishop Nouel and The Count and Hostosbetween El Conde and Salomé Ureña, with the aim that businesses at these intersections can operate without difficulties during December, a month in which commercial activity increases.
“We leave these important roads open to traffic and present the stabilization work of the San Francisco monastery, something truly important to preserve our history,” said the tourism minister, David Collado.
Revitalization program
He highlighted that both projects are executed within the Revitalization Program of Colonial Cityan intervention that seeks to revitalize the historic center in its urban, economic and cultural tourism.
The program is developed with financing from Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and is executed by the Ministry of Tourismthrough the Program Coordinating Unit (UCP), and in coordination with the Ministry of Culture (MINC) and the Mayor of the National District (DNA).
The scope of the works in the streets includes:
- The placement of new pavement with concrete slabs on roads and sidewalks
- A platform design for a safe pedestrian movement
- Podotactile signs to safely guide people with reduced vision.
The hydrosanitary network was also rehabilitated, the drinking water network and the connections, both in businesses and in residences, in addition to separating the sanitary drainage of storm drainage.
The undergrounding of the electrical and telecommunications networks will be carried out in the final phase which corresponds to the project.
The official also presented the works of protection for the stabilization of the Monastery of San Francisco, in order to preserve the architectural integrity and provide greater resistance to the infrastructure, stopping its deterioration and the gradual loss of the structure caused by the passage of time, natural disasters and disuse.
With these works it was possible to preserve this monastery, also known as “The ruins“, considered one of the most valuable monumental relics of the historical heritage and cultural of the Dominican Republic.
