Today in Cap Cana\u00a0we commemorate the 172th anniversary of the independence of the Dominican Republic, at the Eden Roc’s Beach Club drinks were decorated with a flag, Little John had a special menu of\u00a0traditional Dominican food and a merengue group, the brunch at La Mona included a tasty Dominican platter and L’Stella Cigar and celebrated with a night of run & tobacco.<\/p>\n
The Dominican flag was raised at the beach as a tribute to commemorate the heroic act of a group of young intellectuals that on the night of the 27th of February 1844 proclaim the independence of the Dominican Republic rising for the first time a Dominican flag.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0the\u00a01830s Juan\u00a0Pablo\u00a0Duarte\u00a0(1813-1876) known\u00a0as one of the\u00a0founding father\u00a0of\u00a0the Dominican\u00a0Independence” organized\u00a0a\u00a0secret\u00a0society\u00a0known\u00a0as\u00a0La\u00a0Trinitaria A a group of Dominican nationalists, who successfully liberated the Dominican people.\u00a0For their courage founding “La Trinitaria” Juan Pablo Duarte, Mat\u00edas Ram\u00f3n Mella and Francisco del Rosario S\u00e1nchez\u00a0are considered the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
The island of la Hispaniola was occupied by two colonies, a Spanish and French one. The French colony was the\u00a0first of Latin America to obtain their freedom in 1791 becoming the Republic of Haiti. The Spanish part was a colony until 1821 but a year later, in 1822 was military invaded by the Republic of Haiti for 22 years. It was until the night of the 27th of February 1844, when Mat\u00edas Ram\u00f3n Mella\u00a0fired a shot, event known as the \u201ctrabucazo\u201d at the “Puerta del Conde” and\u00a0Francisco del Rosario S\u00e1nchez raised the Dominican flag for\u00a0the first time shouting the words “Dios, Patria y Libertad!” (God, Country and Freedom),\u00a0<\/i>moment in which the Dominican Republic was founded.<\/p>\n
For the next 12 years, a group of patriots came together through a manifesto that indicated separation from the Easter part of the island, and fought 14 battles for the cause of independence.<\/p>\n
The first Dominican flag was designed and created by Mar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez, S\u00e1nchez\u2019s aunt, where she included blue, representing God\u2019s blessings over our nation, red representing our liberators\u2019 blood and the white cross symbolizing our Independence as an inheritance from those who fought for our freedom. A curios fact is that the Dominican flag is the only flag in the world to incorporate in its coat of arms and\u00a0the Holy Bible.<\/p>\n
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