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Old San Juan is one of the neighborhoods of the Capital City-limits of Puerto Rico, San Juan. Its adorableness and agreeableness has been an afflatus for abounding poets and songwriters for abounding years.
It is alleged El Viejo San Juan in Spanish and attracts about all tourists accession Puerto Rico Vacation packages. It is an basic allotment of Puerto Rico History.
For me and my wife decidedly it has a cornball charm. We operated an important Travel Agency on Fortaleza Street, the capital avenue of Old San Juan and the active every day adjoining the Atlantic Ocean to get to plan was one of a lot of admirable adventures during the years we lived on the island.
The city-limits was founded in 1521 and accordingly is the oldest city-limits beneath the American Flag and additional alone to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic as the oldest city-limits in the Americas.
Today it represents the anchorage of access to abounding tourists accession on the tens of cruises of all companies that appointment San Juan as one of their stops on the Eastern Caribbean Cruises. It is aswell the capital anchorage of burden for appurtenances and abstracts for the island of Puerto Rico.
Being an American Commonwealth. Puerto Rico does not crave acceptance or even a authorization for American Citizens.
The city-limits is adorned by abounding plazas that you can see as you airing through the attenuated streets. Some of them are Plaza Colon, Plaza de Armas, Plaza San Jose, Plaza del Quinto Centenario, Plazuela La Rogativa and Parque Las palomas a part of others.
The Cathedral was congenital in 1521, but the architectonics we adore today was adequate in 1917.
Some of the actual important barrio to acknowledgment are: Palacio de Santa Catalina bigger apperceive as "La Fortaleza" or the Breastwork which is the official abode of the Governor of Puerto Rico.
La Alcaldia or City-limits anteroom with its abundant Spanish architecture.
Paseo la Princesa, a above Spanish bastille is now the home of the Puerto Rico Tourism Authority and it is amidst by breadth and a ample access ideal for a morning or afternoon stroll.
At walking ambit from all this is "El Morro" anchored at the actual tip of the peninsula that hosts Old San Juan. This arty breastwork welcomes all cruise ships accession through the aperture of San Juan Bay. Locals use the immense breadth for picnics and ancestors reunions.
As mentioned the capital avenue is Fortaleza Street and no beneath important is San Francisco Street, active alongside to the latter.
Both streets are abounding with gift stores, adornment food and abounding added accouterment to the accretion amount of visitors to the area.
From Calle Fortaleza you abounding go down Tanca Street, canyon next to the Old Post Office Architectonics and ability the anchorage of San Juan and about abiding you will see one of the abounding Cruise Liners visiting the island.
Back up to Plaza Colon breadth we started our bout and out of Old San Juan you may see the capitol which is a replica of the one in Washington. It houses the Puerto Rico Senate and House of Representatives.
Old San Juan is a have to for every company to the area.
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