Paseo de la Princesa - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Paseo de la Princesa - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Paseo de la Princesa (English: Promenade of the Princess or Princess Promenade), is a partially waterside 19th-century pedestrian promenade about in length located in the historic district of Old San Juan in Puerto Rico that is lined with Victorian lampposts and benches, large trees and gardens, and varying fountains and sculptures, and host to food and artisan street vendors, musical and theatrical street entertainers, and cultural restaurants and festivals. Constructed between 1852 and 1854 in honor of Queen Isabella II of Spain’s first-born, Princess of Asturias Infanta Isabel, the promenade runs adjacent and parallel to the southwestern section of the Walls of Old San Juan, passing by the Antigua Prisión La Princesa (The Princess Old Prison) from 1837, currently housing the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, and through the sculptural fountain Raíces (Roots), representing Puerto Rican identity since 1992, and ending at Puerta de San Juan (San Juan Gate), the starting location of Paseo del Morro (Promenade of the Morro). Read more on Wikipedia
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