Pablo Casals Museum

The Pablo Casals Museum, located on San José Square in Old San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a museum dedicated to the Catalan Puerto Rican cellist, composer and conductor Pablo Casals, who lived the last 17 years of his life in San Juan where he composed his masterpiece El Pessebre.

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Type: Building
Description: former museum dedicated to Pablo Casals in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Also known as: “Casals Museum”, “Museo de Casals”, “Museo de Pablo Casals”, “Museo de Palbo Casals”, and “Museo Pablo Casals”
Address: Calle San Sebastián, San Juan, PR 00901

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include San José Church and Plaza de San José.

San José Church

Church

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San José Church, located in Old San Juan, the historic colonial zone of the capital of Puerto Rico, is one of the first significant works of architecture on the island, and one of the earliest surviving examples of 16th-century Spanish Gothic architecture in the Western Hemisphere.

Plaza de San José

Square

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Plaza de San José is a square.

San Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist

Church

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The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist, officially known as the Minor Basilica of Saint John the Baptist and Parish of Our Lady of Remedies, is the Catholic cathedral for the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico. San Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist is situated 200 metres south of Pablo Casals Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Juan and La Perla.

San Juan

Quarter

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Old San Juan is a historic district or quarter located at the "northwest triangle" of San Juan Islet in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Its area roughly correlates to the Ballajá, Catedral, Marina, Mercado, San Cristóbal, and San Francisco sub-barrios of barrio San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

La Perla

Neighborhood

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La Perla is a historic neighborhood located in the northern historic city of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, stretching about 650 yards along the rocky Atlantic coast immediately east of the Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery and down the slope from Calle Norzagaray.