Sunday, January 30, 2011
Adoquines
The adoquines, blue cobblestone pavers, were made with European iron furnace slag that, according to historians, was part of the ballast of the sugar carrying ships. Subjected to time, weather and traffic, the pavers have developed a very characteristic shiny blue-gray hue. Most of the narrow streets in Old San Juan are paved with adoquines.
Cristobal Colon
(originally San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, a name that was later supplanted by Puerto Rico (English: Rich Port) while the capital retained the name, San Juan)
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