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Old San Juan (Spanish: Viejo San Juan) is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" [2] of the islet of San Juan in San Juan.Its area roughly correlates to the Ballajá, Catedral, Marina, Mercado, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios (sub-districts) of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Casa Blanca, 1904 Casa Blanca and city wall, 1903 Site and roof plan of Casa Blanca, 1981. Casa Blanca is a historic house museum situated in Old San Juan, the historic colonial district of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
San Juan National Historic Site (Spanish: Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan) in the Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a National Park Service-managed historic site which preserves and interprets the Spanish colonial-era fortification system of the city of San Juan, and features structures such as the San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal fortresses. [3]
San Juan Islet (Spanish: Isleta de San Juan) is a 3-square-mile (7.8 km 2) islet or small island on San Juan Bay in the Atlantic coast of northern Puerto Rico.Home to Old San Juan, it is the site of the oldest permanent European settlement in Puerto Rico (1521), and the second-oldest European settlement in the West Indies after Santo Domingo (1496).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Capital and largest city of Puerto Rico Capital city and municipality in Puerto Rico, United States San Juan Capital city and municipality Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Santurce, San Juan Bay, and Old San Juan from San Cristóbal Fortress Old San ...
The promenade starts at Bastión de la Derecha de San Justo y Pastor on the Walls of Old San Juan in Marina, the southernmost sub-barrio in Old San Juan on the San Juan Islet, passing through passing by the Antigua Prisión La Princesa (Old La Princesa Prison) from 1837, currently housing the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, and the popular Fuente ...
Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, while the capital city was named Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). [21] Eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading/shipping port and the capital ...
It was built between 1924 and 1931 at the site of a smaller 18th-century custom house, at a critical location that used to function as the central business district of San Juan during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the site of the main port of Puerto Rico (today the main cruise ship port section of Old San Juan) before the ...