first university in the Americas


Hispaniola (La Española) is the historic heart of the Spanish Empire in the new world. The Caribbean island was visited by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the Americas in 1492. Hispaniola would become home to the oldest European settlements in the new world, first La Navidad (in present day Haiti) and then La Isabela (in the Dominican Republic). Both of these settlements were ultimately […]

The oldest European city in the Americas