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The forts, the wall, the gate and the streets between them. Every
photograph here shows somewhere inside the walls or on the water beside them, taken by
the operators running the historical tours of Old San Juan trips.
The fort pictures do the work a description cannot. Castillo San Felipe del Morro
sits on a 140-foot headland at the mouth of the bay. It reads as a low grey line until
you are on the esplanade in front of it. Castillo San Cristóbal covers twenty-seven acres,
and its gate and dry-moat bridge are the part most people photograph. Between them runs
the wall.
The street pictures are why people come. Adoquín cobbles cast blue-grey, and balconies
in mango and coral above them. The umbrella canopy strung the length of Calle de la
Fortaleza. The red door of La Puerta de San Juan, set into fifty feet of masonry at the
water's edge.
A note on what is not here. Two thirds of the photographs supplied with these
listings show somewhere else in Puerto Rico entirely: waterfalls, beaches, a distillery
across the bay. None of them is in this gallery. Everything below is somewhere a tour on
this list actually walks.
The ceremonial gateway into Castillo San Cristóbal and the bridge over its dry moatThe stone bulk of Castillo San Cristóbal above its glacis in Old San JuanA vaulted gate arch in the walls of Castillo San Cristóbal, pigeons on the cobblesThe path across the esplanade to Castillo San Felipe del Morro, past the park signCastillo San Felipe del Morro on its headland above the Atlantic, seen across the rooftopsThe domed chapel of the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis cemetery below El MorroA garrison building on the walls flying the Puerto Rican and United States flagsA Spanish colonial stone gateway set into the walls of Old San JuanThe red San Juan Gate at the foot of the city wall, the bay beyond itThe gateway into Old San Juan seen from the Paseo outside the wallThe red door of La Puerta de San Juan set into fifty feet of city wallA garita sentry box on the sea wall with San Juan Bay behind itA street in Old San Juan running down to the sea wall, a garita on the parapetThe lawn on the bay side of the old city wall, looking out across the waterA cruise ship berthed against the waterfront a few minutes from the old cityThe Alcaldía de San Juan on Plaza de Armas, its clock tower above the arcadeA colonnaded civic building on a plaza in the middle of Old San JuanThe three-storey arcaded courtyard of the Cuartel de BallajáA cobbled plaza and archway in Old San JuanThe bronze figures of La Rogativa on the wall above the bay, a garita behind themThe barrel-vaulted nave of a colonial church in Old San Juan, gilded altars along the aisleBlue adoquín cobbles running between painted facades in Old San JuanWrought-iron balconies above a street of coloured houses in Old San JuanA pastel terrace and its balcony rail on a street in Old San JuanA yellow shopfront faced in painted tiles on a street in Old San JuanA white colonial corner house on a narrow street in Old San JuanA yellow corner house above the blue cobbles of Old San JuanA terracotta courtyard and its steps inside a colonial house in Old San JuanColoured umbrellas strung above Calle de la Fortaleza in Old San JuanThe umbrella canopy on Calle de la Fortaleza looking towards the governor's residence
