San Juan National Historic Site

San Juan National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table).

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San Juan National Historic Site

Parks Directory of the United States / US National Parks / National Historic Sites

Address: 501 Norzagaray St
San Juan, PR 00901
Phone: 787-729-6960;
Fax: 787-289-7972;
Web: www.nps.gov/saju/
Size: 75 acres.
Established: Designated a National Historic Site on February 14, 1949. Designated a World Heritage Site on December 9, 1983.
Location: In the city of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Facilities: Museum/exhibit.
Activities: Guided tour.
Special Features: Park includes the forts of El Morro, San Cristóbal, and and San Juan de la Cruz (also called El Cañuelo), plus bastions, powder houses, and three fourths of the city walls. Surrounding the old, colonial portion of San Juan, these massive masonry fortifications, oldest in the territorial limits of the United States, were begun by the Spaniards beginning in 1539 to protect a strategic harbor guarding the sea lanes to the New World. Most of the walls we see today were added later in a period of tremendous construction from the 1760's to the 1780's.

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See other parks in Puerto Rico.