Often overlooked from Sundial Plaza is this humble white building on the opposite bank of the Ozama River. This land is where Bartholomew Columbus founded La Nueva Isabela in 1496, the first settlement in the Americas. The Spanish colony was moved in 1502 to the west side of the river and became Santo Domingo. Yet this Chapel of the Rosary was built in 1544 and then left behind by the colonists.
