Mercado, Old San Juan
Mercado | |
|---|---|
 Kiosk in Mercado, San Juan Antiguo | |
 Mercado is in San Juan Antiguo | |
 San Juan Antiguo is in San Juan | |
  Mercado San Juan is in Puerto Rico | |
| Coordinates: 18°28′10″N 66°07′03″W / 18.4694956°N 66.1174290°W | |
| Commonwealth |  Puerto Rico |
| Municipality |  San Juan |
| Barrio | San Juan Antiguo |
Mercado is one of 7 subbarrios of the San Juan Antiguo barrio in the municipality of San Juan in Puerto Rico. Mercado (Spanish for 'marketplace) is named after Old San Juan's main marketplace, which used to be located there.[1] It is one of the six subbarrios which form part of the Old San Juan Historic District.[2]
Half of La Perla is located within the borders of the Mercado subbarrio, the other half is located in the neighboring subbarrio, San Cristóbal.[3]
History
[edit]Along with subbarrios Catedral, San Cristóbal and San Francisco, Mercado is one of the four districts that represent the original boundaries of the Spanish walled settlement of San Juan during the 16th century. The population of the subbarrio subsequently grew around the Church of San José and the Convent of Saint Thomas Aquinas, established between 1523 and 1528.[4] Originally known as Barrio de Santa Bárbara, Mercado was one of the five barrios that constituted the city of San Juan in 1845. It subsequently became a subbarrio of Barrio de San Juan (today San Juan Antiguo barrio) when Santurce was annexed to San Juan and the previous barrios were dissolved in 1863.[5] As hinted by its name, the main marketplace of the city of San Juan used to be located in this subbarrio. This marketplace functioned until the early 20th century and, with its closure during this time, the nearby slaughterhouses and nearby freed slave houses subsequently developed into the modern community of La Perla.[3][6] The marketplace today hosts the Museum of San Juan, having been established in 1979 it is the oldest municipal museum in Puerto Rico.[7]
The United States took control of Puerto Rico from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico, finding that the population of Mercado was 2,038.[8]
Cityscape
[edit]Places of interest
[edit]- La Perla
- Old Marketplace of San Juan
- Pablo Casals Museum
- Puerto Rico Institute of Neurobiology
- San José Church
- San Juan National Historic Site
- Santo Tomás de Aquino Convent
Main streets and squares
[edit]- Calle de la Cruz
- Calle del Cristo
- Calle del Sol
- Norzagaray Street
- Plaza de San José
- Plaza del Quinto Centenario
- San Sebastián Street
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Puerto Rico", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved May 24, 2017
- ^ "Puerto Rico", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved May 24, 2017
- ^ a b "NPS Incident Management Team Hurricane Update for the Caribbean Parks, Saturday, October 7, 2017 – 6pm". Office of Communications (U.S. National Park Service). 2017-10-07. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "Puerto Rico", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved May 24, 2017
- ^ "Puerto Rico", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved May 24, 2017
- ^ Cordasco, F.; Bucchioni, E. (1973). The Puerto Rican Experience: A Sociological Sourcebook. Littlefield, Adams quality paperback. Rowman and Littlefield. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-87471-162-2. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ^ "Más de un siglo de historia". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 2008-04-16. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
- ^ Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 162.
External links
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