The Granger Collection, NYC Half a millennium ago, in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León departed Puerto Rico for the verdant island of “Bimini”—an uncharted land in what is now ...

When Columbus discovered Puerto Rico he had many ... the tomb of the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, following up on her recent visit to Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth Archaeological ...

It was built in 1521 for Juan Ponce de León, who originally explored the island to look for gold and eventually became the first governor of Puerto Rico. Juan Ponce de León died before the ...