At 4:30am AST this morning, a statue of Juan Ponce de León was found toppled in San Juan’s Plaza San José and broken from impact. The statue’s removal took place just hours before King ...

A statue of a Spanish explorer in Puerto Rico has been toppled hours before a visit by the King of Spain to the US Caribbean territory. Juan Ponce de Leon, who landed on the island with ...

Juan Ponce de León served as governor of Puerto Rico for a tumultuous five years. During that time, the native Taínos tried unsuccessfully to overpower him, but, in the end, it was the son of ...

August 4, 1513 The fleet had departed the island of La Vieja on July 25 to continue the search for the elusive island of Bimini, sailing amongst very low lying Lucayan islands (today's Bahamas Isl… ...

While Ponce de Leon’s time in Florida was short, his impact was significant. In 1521, on his second attempt to sail through the modern-day Caloosahatchee River to establish a colony, the Calusa ...

On April 2, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first arrived in what is now Florida - the start of a quest for a miraculous spring whose waters could reverse aging. Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

If not Ponce de Leon, who? The three authors of a new book released Friday, “The Florida Keys: A History Through Maps,” present a compelling theory that Floridians ought to be naming more ...

Last week, the Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2023 Ponce De León Awards, at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami during their traditional anniversary gala, marking its 43rd edition this year.

MIAMI, FL / ACCESSWIRE / November 4, 2024 / The Spain-US Chamber of Commerce in Florida is proud to announce that the recipients of the 2024 Ponce de León Awards for "Company of the Year " are ...

MIAMI — Of all the outlandish myths about Florida's outlandish history, one of the most stubborn holds that Ponce de Leon discovered it in 1513 when he was searching for the Fountain of Youth ...