Old San Juan

Your guide will drive you around the city and give you a detailed introduction to Puerto Rico's history and tell you about every main landmark. Your guide will allow you to have several stops where you can walk and take pictures while experiencing our old city.

2 hours

Castillo De San Cristobal (Pass By)

Largest fort ever built by any empire in the new world

Plaza Colon (Pass By)

Columbus welcomes every visitor comminh by land to our Old San Juan.

Luis Munoz Rivera Park (Pass By)

Park dedicated to our George Washington figure Luis Muñoz Rivera

Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery (Pass By)

One of the 3 most beautiful cemeteries of the world.

Plaza del Quinto Centenario (Pass By)

Square that conmemorates the 500 years of rhe discovery of Puerto Rico

Cuartel de Ballaja (Pass By)

Both Spanish and US troops quarters, Ballaja served as main military quarters for more than 100 years.

Old San Juan (Pass By)

Built after spanish rulers took down the eastern walls of the city, the casino became the place for the opulent balls, weddings and parties of the wealthy spanish in the city.

Iglesia de San Jose (Pass By)

Built in 1540 by Ponce De Leon family, it is the 2nd oldest church in our nation America and 4th oldest in all the Americas

Catedral Basilica Menor de San Juan Bautista (Pass By)

Built in 1511, it is our nations oldest church and burrial place of Ponce de Leon

Plaza de la Catedral (Pass By)

Renamed after our first elected mayor, Felisa Rincon de Gauthier, it is the oldest city square in all the americas.

La Puerta de San Juan (Pass By)

Main entrance to the city in colonial times, it's aligned to the cathedral's main doors so anyone coming in to the city had to pay respects to the church.

La Rogativa (Pass By)

Monument for the "Miracle of San Juan" when the bishop and the woman went to pray for the british troops to leave their attack in 1797.

San Juan City Hall (Pass By)

Second and actual city hall.

Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico (Pass By)

Former Real Intendencia, Spanish mint and US mint in Puerto Rico amd today's State Department.

Fortin San Antonio (Pass By)

Marker for the old fort part of the first line of defense of San Juan, today is a bridge that joins the main island Puerto Rico to the San Juan Island.

Fortin de San Jeronimo del Boqueron (Pass By)

Part of the first line of defense of the old city, was also the home of our second US governor Gen Brooke.

Sixto Escobar Park (Pass By)

Monument to our first world boxing champion and infantry man for the US during WW2.

Plaza de San Jose (Pass By)

Square with Ponce de Leon statue and monument

Paseo de los Presidentes (Pass By)

Monument to all US pressidents who have made official visits to Puerto Rico as presidents.

Paseo de la Princesa (Pass By)

Walkway just outside the south wall of the city

Capilla del Santo Cristo de la Salud (Pass By)

Chapel of the Christ is venerated as a place of miracles with hundreds of accounted healing miracles.

La Fortaleza - Palacio de Santa Catalina (Pass By)

Oldest executive mantion still in use in the Americas. Built in 1540.

El Bastion (Pass By)

Former place for the spanish firing squad.

Garita del Diablo (Pass By)

Old San Juan most famous garita or view point. The spanish troops considered it haunted and nobody wanted to take the night shift to it so they even played dice to choose who was going each night.

Holocaust Memorial Monument (Pass By)

Monument to the victims of the Holocaust.

Casa de Espana (Pass By)

Today a wedding venue, it was the meeting place of the top of spanish society in Puerto Rico.