Gate of the Royal Shipyards

They were the warehouses of the Kingdom of Spain in the colony, warehouse of goods for export and customs. Headquarters of the first Contracting House of the New World.
The building has three naves, made of brick and stone entrance columns. Its typology (shipyards) is unique in America. There is only one other similar building in the world and it is located in Barcelona.
During the time, the Royal Shipyards were protected by the gate and the walls and the round went on the same wall to the Palace of Diego Colón and descended by ramp to Las Damas street. In the seventeenth century, the round extended beyond Santa Barbara.
It is currently a museum that houses objects on underwater archaeology practiced on sunken ships in Dominican territorial waters from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

Marlyn Matos