Things to see in San Juan
San Juan is a city in Puerto Rico, with an urban population of about 2.5 million. Below are 20 notable places within about 7 km of the centre, ranked by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
1La Fortaleza History
La Fortaleza, also known as Palacio de Santa Catalina ("Saint Catherine's Palace"), is the official residence and workplace of the Governor of Puerto Rico.
2San Juan National Historic Site History
San Juan National Historic Site 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.
3Cathedral of San Juan Bautista Place of worship
The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist, officially known as the Minor Basilica of Saint John the Baptist and Parish of Our Lady of Remedies, is the Catholic cathedral for the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
4Castillo San Felipe del Morro History
Castillo San Felipe del Morro, most commonly known as El Morro (The Promontory), is a large fortress and citadel in the Old San Juan historic quarter of San Juan, the capital city and municipality of Puerto Rico.
5Old San Juan Historic District History
Old San Juan is a historic district or quarter located at the "northwest triangle" of San Juan Islet in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
6Castillo San Cristóbal History
Castillo San Cristóbal is a fortress in the Old San Juan historic quarter of San Juan, the capital municipality of Puerto Rico, known for being the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World.
7Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery History
The Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery is a historic Catholic cemetery located in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the final resting place of many of Puerto Rico's most prominent natives and residents.
8Plaza de Armas de San Juan Neighbourhood
The Plaza de Armas of San Juan, formerly known as the Plaza Mayor, is a plaza de armas and one of the main squares in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico.
9San Juan Islet Nature
San Juan Islet is a small, narrow island on the northeastern coast of the main island of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, San Juan Bay to the west and south, and Condado Lagoon to the east.
10Caparra Museum
Caparra is an archaeological site containing the remains of the village of Caparra, the first European settlement in the main island of Puerto Rico.
11El Cañuelo History
Fortín San Juan de la Cruz, most commonly known as El Cañuelo, was built on Isla de Cabras in the Palo Seco barrio of the municipality of Toa Baja, at the western end of the entrance to San Juan Bay, in Puerto Rico.
12Museo Pablo Casals Museum
The Pablo Casals Museum, located on San José Square in Old San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a museum dedicated to the Catalan Puerto Rican cellist, composer and conductor Pablo Casals, who lived the last 17 years of his life in San Juan where he composed his masterpiece El Pessebre.
13San José Church Place of worship
San José Church, located in Old San Juan, the historic colonial zone of the capital of Puerto Rico, is one of the first significant works of architecture on the island, and one of the earliest surviving examples of 16th-century Spanish Gothic architecture in the Western Hemisphere.
14Isla de Cabras Nature
Isla de Cabras is a small islet in the middle of the mouth of San Juan Bay in northeastern Puerto Rico.
15Plaza de la Catedral Park
Plaza de la Catedral, also known as Plazuela de las Monjas ('little square of the nuns'), is a small public square located in front of the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista and next to the former Carmelite convent (now a Hotel El Convento) in the Old San Juan historic district of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
16Plaza Las Américas Shopping
Plaza Las Américas is a shopping mall in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico, located at the intersection of Routes 18 and 22. "Plaza", as it is known to many Puerto Ricans, was the first indoor shopping mall built in Puerto Rico.
17Plaza Colón Neighbourhood
Plaza Colón, formerly called Santiago Square, is a plaza or public town square located in Old San Juan where the easternmost city walls and main city gate (Puerta de Santiago) used to be located.
18Puerto Rico Museum of Art Art
The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico is an art museum in Santurce, a barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with 18 exhibition halls. The museum is located in a historic building, formerly occupied by the San Juan Municipal Hospital.
19Puerto Rico National Cemetery History
Puerto Rico National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery located in the city of Bayamón, in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It encompasses 108.2 acres (43.8 ha) of land, and at the end of 2005, had 44,722 interments.
20Fortín de San Gerónimo History
Fortín de San Gerónimo de Boquerón is a small historic fort located at the mouth of the Condado Lagoon in San Juan Islet across from the district of Condado in the barrio of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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