If you go to Viejo San Juan, pay special attention to the balconies. They're often a sight for sore eyes.
The windows are pretty cool, too.
As are the doors, with their beautifully crafted rejas and the tiles on the stairwells and floors.
This is the door to one very small and very rectangular casita in Viejo San Juan.
This is a painting of Don Pedro Albizu Campos, the Nationalist Party leader who spent most of his life behind bars where he was finally secretly radiated to death.
The blue cobblestones in the Old City are gorgeous. José Campeche has a painting that shows when they were first laid down in the eighteenth century.
A view of El Morro, San Juan's fortress and erstwhile prison with its signature garitas. It is said the chilly dungeons are haunted...
The Iglesia de San José, bombarded by the Americans in May 1898, is being restored to its former glory. I used to attend Sunday services at the church many years ago.
The delicate and flashy trinitarias are my very favorite Caribbean flower.
The windows are pretty cool, too.
As are the doors, with their beautifully crafted rejas and the tiles on the stairwells and floors.
This is the door to one very small and very rectangular casita in Viejo San Juan.
This is a painting of Don Pedro Albizu Campos, the Nationalist Party leader who spent most of his life behind bars where he was finally secretly radiated to death.The blue cobblestones in the Old City are gorgeous. José Campeche has a painting that shows when they were first laid down in the eighteenth century.
A view of El Morro, San Juan's fortress and erstwhile prison with its signature garitas. It is said the chilly dungeons are haunted...
At least the spirits resting in the National Cemetery have a great view of the azure Atlantic.
The Iglesia de San José, bombarded by the Americans in May 1898, is being restored to its former glory. I used to attend Sunday services at the church many years ago.
The delicate and flashy trinitarias are my very favorite Caribbean flower.
Puerto Rican fruits and vegetables in the middle of the busy city of Hato Rey.
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