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San Germán is also known as the "founder of towns", given the fact that in 1514 the Spanish Crown separated the island into two administrative territories (Partidos). The borders of the two partidos were established as the Camuy River to the north and the Jacagua River to the south. They were named the San Juan Partition and the San Germán ...
September 22, 1977 (1 Ponce de León Ave. San Juan Antiguo: Beaux Arts casino building from 1917, used as an officers' club, music school, cultural headquarters, reception hall and event venue by the United States Army and the government of Puerto Rico throughout its history.
La Bombonera is a restaurant founded in 1902 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, located on 259 San Francisco street of Old San Juan in Puerta de Tierra. It is the third oldest restaurant in Puerto Rico after La Mallorquina founded in 1848 and "Cafè Turull" founded in 1816. Some of its products are Mallorcas, creole version of Majorcan ensaïmades. The ...
The Normandie Hotel is a historic building located in the Isleta de San Juan, in San Juan, Puerto Rico which opened on October 10, 1942 as a hotel. Its design was inspired by the French transatlantic passenger ship SS Normandie in addition to featuring the same Art Deco design as the ocean liner that inspired it, and the hotel's original roof sign was one of the two signs that adorned the top ...
On 27 October 1880 (), Léonard Lipp and his wife Pétronille opened the brasserie on the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Their speciality was a cervelat rémoulade starter, then choucroute garnie, served with the finest beers. The brasserie's atmosphere and its modest prices made it a great success.
It first appears in the 16th century as a spring that fed water to the Spanish outpost of Old San Juan. During the Battle of San Juan (17 April – 2 May 1797), the town of Miramar was the site of the British ill-fated British assault on the Spanish colonial port city of San Juan de Puerto Rico during the 1796–1808 Anglo-Spanish War.
Spanish colonists established La Villa de San Germán de Auxerre, also known as Nueva Salamanca, in the early years of the 16th century. The town of San Germán grew out of the settlement formally established in 1573, and it is this original urban core, transformed by rapid growth from the 1830s to the 1940s, that comprises the San Germán Historic District.
Traffic runs westbound from Calle de San Justo to the dead-end and eastbound from Calle de San Justo to Calle de la Tanca. [7] Calle del Sol — — unknown 1 E to W Calle Luna, Calle Sol is the name of song by Puerto Rican salsa musicians, Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe. [4] [5] Calle Trigo Avenida Juan Ponce de León: Marginal Baldorioty de ...