Unesco has been invited to step in and take over this slowly crumbling national park , which marks Columbus’ second settlement on Hispaniola. On his second voyage to the New World, Columbus found the first settlement at Cap-Haïtien in Haiti destroyed, so he shifted 110km east and set up a new camp here. These days a shabby museum marks the occasion – its cheesiness is appropriate, considering that the majority of visitors are groups of Dominican primary-school students. There’s some old coins, rings and arrowheads, and a small-scale replica of Columbus’ house. All the exhibits are in Spanish, and guides speak very little English. You can see it all in half an hour, tops.
