Dominican Republic Guide: Culture

If you really want to make a new life in a country, you need to understand the people who live there. Our guide will give you useful and interesting information about culture and history, people, traditions, customs and more.

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  Dominican cuisine

  What to eat and where to eat it

  Thankfully as an expat you won’t be forced to eat the bland fare that most tourists get fed at the giant resort hotels that make up so many foreigners’ experiences of the Dominican Republic. 

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  Dominican festivals

  Five of the best

  The Dominican Republic has one of the most fascinating arrays of annual fiestas in Latin America. Fiestas Patronales, as they’re known, range from culturally complex syncretisms of Catholic and African animist religious ceremonies to wild street parties and carnivals.

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