Northern Coast
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San Juan Antiguo

Plaza Colón

Plaza Colón, formerly called Santiago Square, is a or public town square located in where the easternmost city walls and main city gate used to be located.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico and Castillo San Cristóbal.

Government office
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , located at Avenida Ponce de León 1 in , is a Beaux Arts architecture style building dating from 1917.

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is a fortress in the historic quarter of , the capital municipality of , known for being the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World. is situated 190 metres northeast of Plaza Colón.

Theater building
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Teatro Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, is the oldest free-standing drama stage building located in . It is named after Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, a Puerto Rican poet and dramatist.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Perla and San Juan.

Neighborhood
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is a historic neighborhood located in the northern historic city of , , 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.

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

Neighborhood
is one of 40 subbarrios of , in . Recently named the Convention Center District or "Distrito del Centro de Convenciones: it is bounded by , and the or Laguna del Condado.

Plaza Colón

Latitude
18.4662° or 18° 27′ 58″ north
Longitude
-66.11201° or 66° 6′ 43″ west
Open location code
77CMFV8Q+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 196605697
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­pedestrian
Wiki­data ID
Q20018135
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Spanish—“Plaza Colón” goes by many names.

Places with the Same Name

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Plaza Colón”. Photo: Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0.