After the included shore excursion, as the others made their way back to the Viking Sea (or shopping!), we continued east.
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| Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico/Old Casino of Puerto Rico (1917, by Montilla & Ferrer in Beaux Arts style) was an officers' club, school of music, and reception center before becoming an events venue |
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| Bomba de Agua/Water Pump (1942) |
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| Ground-level view of Castillo San Cristóbal, said to be the largest Spanish fortification in the W Hemisphere |
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| Ateneo Puertorriqueño/Puerto Rican Athenaeum (1923, by Francisco Roldán Arce in Spanish Morisco style) |
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| Statue (2011, by José Cadaveda) of Dr Ramón Emeterio Betances, a nationalist leader who sought independence and the end of colonial rule for Puerto Rico, in front of the Athenaeum |
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| Casa de España/House of Spain (1934, by Pedro Adolfo de Castro in Moorish Revival style) houses a private social organization whose members are of Spanish descent |
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| Capitolio/Capitol Building (1921-1929, using a mix of designs by Frank E Perkins in Neoclassical style, and Carlos del Valle Zeno in Renaissamce style) |
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| Estatua de Altar de la Patria/Statue of Altar of the Homeland (2012, by José Buscaglia Guillermeti) that represents the three ethnicities of Puerto Rico: Taino, Spanish and African |
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| Paseo de los Presidentes/Walkway of the Presidents celebrates the United States presidents who have visited Puerto Rico since the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, including Barack Obama, Gerald Ford, and Lyndon B Johnson ... |
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| ... also Herbert Hoover and Theodore Roosevelt (as well as Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F Kennedy) (KSS) |
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| Monumento de la Recordación/Monument of Remembrance (1996) honors Puerto Ricans who have fallen in the service of the United Stated Armed Forces |
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| Holocaust Memorial Monument (2012, by Michael Berkowicz and Bonnie Srolovitz) also honors the 17 Puerto Rican tourists who lost their lives at the Lod Airport massacre in Israel in 1972 |
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| Plaza del Maestro/Teachers' Plaza and Monument to Puerto Rican Teachers |
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| Puerto Rico Police Memorial Monument to those who have fallen in the line of duty |
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| Avenida de la Constitución palm trees |
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| Statue (2000) of Arturo Somohano Portela, Puerto Rican pianist, composer, and conductor |
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| Estatua al Inmigrante/The Immigrant statue (1992, by Prat Ventos) honors those who contributed to the economic and cultural progress in the Americas |
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| Paseo de La Princesa/Princess Walk or Promenade is a tree-lined street with a wide sidewalk that today (Saturdays) hosts a market |
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| Fuente Raices/Heritage Fountain (1992, by Miguel A Carlo; sculptures by Luis A Sanguino) representing the Taino, Spanish and Africans |
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| Crecimiento/Growth (1996, by Carmen Inés Blondet) (KSS) |
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| La Muralla/Old City Wall |
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| Bust of Spanish Queen Isabela I, who helped finance the first voyage of Christopher Columbus |
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| Puerta de San Juan/San Juan Gate from outside the Old City Wall |
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| Inside the gate is a small tile representation of San Juan Bautista |
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| Museo La Casa del Libros/House of Books Museum (founded 1955) is supposed to house the largest rare book annd manuscript collection in the Caribbean |
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| The museum has decided to not display any rare items, and may have an occasional special exhibit beyond these two printing presses |
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| Parque de las Palomas/Park of the Pigeons wall |
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| Plenty of pigeons |
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| The park also has pairs of bronze shoes representing those that Dona Felisa Rincon De Gautier (the first female mayor of San Juan from 1946 to 1968) would give to children in need |
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| Pigeons on the empty birdbath |
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| More shoes as part of Recess (2001, by Ernesto Pujal) |
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| The park only reopened in 2022 after the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017 |
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| Capilla del Santo Cristo de la Salud/Chapel of Christ the Savior (1753-1780) is said to have been built to celebrate the miracle of a horse race contestant unable to stop before he and his horse went over the Old City Wall, but he lived... |
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| Inside the Chapel of Christ with two paintings by José Campeche |
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| El Milagro/The Miracle (1994, by Jorge Zeno) |
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| Hundreds of tiny silver ornaments are meant to represent the various ailing body parts pilgrims hoped to cure |
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| Tamiko at Casa Estrecha/Narrow House (early 2000s, by architect Antonio Álvarez), which is 1.6 m/5'3" wide, filling what once was an alley, and is said to be the skinniest house in North America (KSS) |
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| Whimsical Cat Chairs (by Jorge Zeno) (KSS) |
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| Stopped for ice pops at Señor Paleta |
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| Back at Plaza de Armas with the Fuente de las Cuatro Estacíones/Fountain of Four Seasons with c 1856 statues |
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| Statue (2011, by Luz Badillo) of Catalino "Tite" Curet Alonso, salsa composer |
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| Tamiko & Kent with "Tite" |
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| Also in the plaza is the Café Cuatro Estacíones/ Four Seasons Café or coffee kiosk |
Next: More Old San Juan.
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