One day in San Juan, Puerto Rico

A day through San Juan’s best-known sights that lie close together: San Juan National Historic Site, Plaza de Armas de San Juan, Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, Museo Pablo Casals, La Fortaleza and La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site. 6 stops, about 1.2 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. San Juan National Historic SiteMonument · On the map
  2. Plaza de Armas de San JuanSquare · 0.7 km on from San Juan National Historic Site · On the map
  3. Cathedral of San Juan BautistaCathedral · 0.1 km on from Plaza de Armas de San Juan · On the map
  4. Museo Pablo CasalsMuseum · 0.2 km on from Cathedral of San Juan Bautista · On the map
  5. La FortalezaPalace · 0.2 km on from Museo Pablo Casals · On the map
  6. La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic SiteLandmark · Next to La Fortaleza · On the map

6 stops, 2 km on foot along the streets: about 24 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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