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The Malecon , the capital's oceanfront boardwalk, commences within the Zona Colonial. An intact section of the old city wall follows it for 100m to Fort San Jose , built on a strategic oceanfront promontory after an attempted invasion by the British in 1655. The cannons that remain appear to point across the street at a fifty-metre high statue of Fray Montesino , a sixteenth-century priest who preached against the Taino genocide. Further on you'll find La Obelisca , placed by Trujillo in 1941 to honour repayment of long-outstanding debt to the US. A kilometre west is another obelisk, El Obelisco , built in 1936 to commemorate Santo Domingo's temporary re-christening as Ciudad Trujillo. Informal party zones abound along the capital's boardwalk, with especially lively scenes occuring nightly at the municipal port at Calle del Puerto, La Parillada along the San Jose fort, and at the intersection with Av Maximo Gomez.
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