Ateneo Puertorriqueño
The Ateneo Puertorriqueño is a cultural institution in Puerto Rico. Founded on April 30, 1876, it has been called Puerto Rico's oldest cultural institution, however, it is actually its third oldest overall and second culturally, after the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, and the Casino of Mayagüez.Photo: Indies1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: cultural institution in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Address: 5 Avenida Constitución
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Biblioteca Carnegie and Castillo San Cristóbal.
Biblioteca Carnegie
Library
Photo: Moebiusuibeom-en, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Biblioteca Carnegie on Avenida Juan Ponce de León in Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico is a NRHP-listed Carnegie library funded through a $100,000 donation from the Carnegie Foundation, becoming Puerto Rico's first purpose-built library when it was completed in 1915.
Castillo San Cristóbal
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Castillo San Cristóbal is a fortress in the Old San Juan historic quarter of San Juan, the capital municipality of Puerto Rico, known for being the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World. Castillo San Cristóbal is situated 220 metres northwest of Ateneo Puertorriqueño.
Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico
Government office
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico, located at Avenida Ponce de León 1 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a Beaux Arts architecture style building dating from 1917. Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico is situated 250 metres west of Ateneo Puertorriqueño.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Perla and San Juan.
La Perla
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Isla Grande
Neighborhood
Isla Grande is one of 40 subbarrios of Barrio Santurce, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Recently named the Convention Center District or "Distrito del Centro de Convenciones: it is bounded by Miramar, and the Condado Lagoon or Laguna del Condado.
Ateneo Puertorriqueño
- Categories: athenaeum and art collection
- Location: San Juan Antiguo, San Juan, Northern Coast, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.46628° or 18° 27′ 59″ northLongitude
-66.10903° or 66° 6′ 33″ westHeight
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
77CMFV8R+G9OpenStreetMap ID
way 292446816OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q565065
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Ateneo Puertorriqueño” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Ateneu Porto-riqueny”
- Dutch: “Ateneo Puertorriqueño”
- Spanish: “Ateneo Puertorriqueño”
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