Plaza Recreo de Juana Díaz

Plaza Recreo de Juana Díaz was rebuilt to reaffirm the city’s historical past and give it renewed presence for the future, with remodeling restored as much as possible to the original design characteristic of the town squares that accompanied the founding of Hispanic American towns. During the Spanish regime, as the town developed culturally and urbanly, the municipal council gave this place the name Plaza de Recreo Alfonso XII because in 1894 Queen Regent Maria Cristina of Austria granted the port of Juana Díaz the honorable title of town, a royal distinction issued and dated in Madrid. Years later, on December 10, 1898, when sovereignty changed, the place was given the name Roman Baldorioty de Castro, honoring the illustrious Puerto Rican who had been imprisoned in this city for wanting to "make a homeland where others tried to make a colony."

Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico · United States