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A Delicious Family Tradition

PUERTO RICO

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The works are stored in the perma-
nent collection and may be viewed by
researchers who make prior appoint-
ments.
Charming Old San Juan, with its
70-foot-high old city walls, is a seven-
square-block district named a National
Historic Zone. More than 400 won-
derful 16th- and 17th-century Colo-
nial buildings have been restored along
narrow, cobblestoned streets. Many of
the protected buildings — with wood
or iron balconies, ancient quarry-tiled
floors and wood-beamed ceilings —
have become Spanish-style homes, art
galleries, restaurants and shops (some
of the retailers are Jewish).
Two favorites: the Puerto Rican
Art & Crafts features the famous
masks of Ponce, colorful papier
mache masks sprouting numerous
horns that appear in the winter carni-
val parade; Butterfly People is both a
small restaurant in an idyllic 18th-
century house featuring tiles and dark
wooden trim, and a gallery of compo-
sitions made from butterflies that
have died naturally.
Numerous historic buildings house
such cultural bastions as the San Juan
Museum of History and Art, the
Indian Museum, the Pharmacy Muse-
um, Museum of the Americas, and
Museum of Colonial Architecture.
The large 19th-century Cuartel de
Ballaja features the School of Plastic
Arts (meaning everything except
sculpture). Music lovers will love the
Pablo Casals Museum here.
Other than the artist's cello, his
house contains fascinating memora-
bilia, videotapes of his concerts that
may be played—and plaster casts of
his hands.
Many of the gems are located
within walking distance of the newly
formed Paseo de la Princesa, the
restoration of a 19th-century palm-
lined promenade with fountains. It's
especially lovely at night, when the
brick esplanade, accented with tin-
kling fountains and flickering
lanterns, spotlights illuminated
ancient stone city walls and build-
ings.
If you do nothing else out on the
island, don't miss hiking through the
28,000-acre El Yunque (Caribbean
National Forest), the tropical rain for-
est in the Luquillo Mountains, where
mists shroud palm, African tulip and
bamboo treetops. Puerto Rican par-
rots flit among the giant ferns, and
flowers including yellow ginger and
crimson sleeping hibiscus stun the
senses.

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