Things to see in Ponce
Ponce is a city in Puerto Rico, with an urban population of about 160 thousand. Below are 18 notable places within about 6 km of the centre, ranked by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
1Museo de Arte de Ponce Art
Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) is an art museum located on Avenida Las Américas in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It houses a collection of European art, as well as works by Puerto Rican artists.
2Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Cathedral Place of worship
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, or simply Ponce Cathedral, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponce located in downtown Ponce, Puerto Rico.
3Teatro La Perla Arts & culture
Teatro La Perla ("The Pearl Theater") is a historic theater in the city and municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
4Isla Cardona Nature
Isla Cardona, also known as Sor Isolina Ferré Island, is a small, uninhabited island located 1.30 nautical miles south of the mainland Puerto Rican shore across from Barrio Playa, on the west side of the entrance to the harbor of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
5Casa Paoli Museum
Casa Paoli is a historic house and biographical museum in barrio Cuarto, Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the Ponce Historic Zone.
6Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center History
The Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Sector La Vega de Taní, Barrio Tibes, Ponce, Puerto Rico, houses one of the most important archaeological discoveries made in the Antilles.
7Plaza del Caribe Shopping
Plaza del Caribe is an enclosed shopping mall located in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is owned by Empresas Fonalledas, and is the largest mall in southern Puerto Rico.
8Ponce Historic Zone Neighbourhood
The Ponce Historic Zone is a historic district in downtown Ponce, Puerto Rico, consisting of buildings, plazas and structures with distinctive architectures such as Neoclásico Isabelino and the Ponce Creole, a local architectural style developed between the 19th- and early 20th-centuries.
9Plaza Las Delicias Park
Plaza Las Delicias is the main plaza in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The square is notable for its fountains and for the various monuments it contains.
10Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña Museum
The Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña is a museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico, that showcases the development of Puerto Rican music, with displays of Taíno, Spanish, and African musical instruments that were played in the romantic danza genre, the favorite music of 19th-century Puerto Rican high society, as well as the more African-inspired bomba and plena styles.
11Isla de Jueyes Nature
Isla de Jueyes are a group of three small uninhabited islands off the southern coast of Puerto Rico. Together with Caja de Muertos, Gatas, Morrillito, Ratones, Cardona, and Isla del Frío, Isla de Jueyes is one of seven islands ascribed to the municipality of Ponce.
12Gatas Nature
Gatas, or more commonly Isla de Gatas, is a small island in barrio Playa in the municipality of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico. A tied island since the 1950s connected to the Puerto Rico mainland via a tombolo, Isla de Gatas is home to Club Náutico de Ponce, a private sports complex.
13Parque de la Abolición Park
Parque de la Abolición is a city park in Barrio Cuarto, Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was the first park in the Caribbean to commemorate the abolition of slavery.
14Armstrong-Poventud Residence Museum
Residencia Armstrong-Poventud (Armstrong-Poventud Residence) is a historic building located in the Ponce Historic Zone in Ponce, Puerto Rico, across from the Catedral Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.
15Museo Parque de Bombas Museum
Museo Parque de Bombas (Parque de Bombas Museum) is a museum located inside the historic Parque de Bombas in the Ponce Historic Zone in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
16Román Baldorioty de Castro National Pantheon Museum
The Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro is a tract of land in Barrio Segundo of the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, originally designed as the city's cemetery, but later converted into what has come to be a famous burial place.
17Old Spanish military hospital in Ponce History
The Antiguo Hospital Militar Español de Ponce is a historic building in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the city's historic district. The building dates from 1896 or 1897.
18El Tuque Nature
El Tuque is a beach and family recreational and tourist complex in the Punta Cucharas sector of Barrio Canas in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It was designed in the early 1960s by Luis Flores, an architect from Cayey, Puerto Rico.
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