 One of the luxury liners which helps bring more than four million visitors a year to the exotic Caribbean port of San Juan |
Each year more than 750 luxury liners unload at the San Juan docks, a sizeable portion of the four million annual tourism flow which makes Puerto Rico the most visited of all Caribbean islands and the prosperous hub of what was once known as the West Indies. Against a backdrop of Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story lyrics this piece delves into the spicy Spanish-American flavour of the legendary "rich port"; with an emphasis on Old San Juan - the block of blue cobbled streets, open trolley buses, Latin ambience, and fine Creole restaurants, officially described as "a breathing chessboard flanked by wrought-iron filigree balconies and pastel-coloured wedding cake building facades."
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