The Fundación Hermanas Mirabal is devoted to the memory of the three Mirabal sisters who died by order of the dictator Trujillo in 1960; they have come to symbolise the martyrs who died during this dark era of repression. Bélgica, the fourth sister, decided to uphold her sisters' memory in this handsome bourgeois home turned into a museum. It remains a moving tribute to the famous fighters whose sad fate finally led to the fall of Trujillo.