Julie Mango

in 16 days, i'll be on a walking tour of old san juan!

September 20th 2006
...starting at San Juan Gate! Built around 1635, just north of La Fortaleza, several blocks downhill from the cathedral, was the main point of entry into San Juan if you arrived by ship in the 17th and 18th centuries. The gate is the only one remaining of the several that once pierced the fortifications of the old walled city. For centuries it was closed at sundown to cut off access to the hist ... read more

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Populated for centuries by aboriginal peoples, the island was claimed by the Spanish Crown in 1493 following Columbus' second voyage to the Americas. In 1898, after 400 years of colonial rule that saw the indigenous population nearly exterminated and... ... read more

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deborah thomas

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longweekendaway - october 6 - 9, 2006...san juan, puerto rico thus begins the travel journal of a 47 year old torontonian lady with a passion to see the world - one longweekendaway at a time. the san juan trip was really born in cancun in feb '06...one day on the way to buffalo with a girlfriend to go shopping...(that's another story, or maybe the title of my first book!). i am a health care administrator with a great job in a downtown teaching hospital. i have been fortunate enough to have lived in both barbados and trinidad and spent 3 consecutive 6 months of winters in sarsaota, flori... full info

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