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Article: Fashionable, flavorful, fun Old San Juan is filled with shops and dining as well as historic sites
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 1999
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SAN JUAN -- Old San Juan really is. Almost ancient in fact.
The walled town at the heart of Puerto Rico's capital was founded
by the Spaniards in 1521, a century before the Pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock. This makes Old San Juan practically medieval by New
World standards. Happily, it carries the nearly five centuries
lightly and is a lively neighborhood, not a museum village.
Metropolitan San Juan is a study in contemporary urban sprawl,
like so many American cities, but the original fortified settlement
-- rimmed by 40-foot-high walls and guarded by two great forts -- is
the essence of compactness. Laid out to a precise formal plan
mandated by Spanish colonial authorities in Madrid, Old ...
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