Catedral de San Juan Bautista

Built in 1521 on the Calle del Cristo in Old San Juan, destroyed by a hurricane, rebuilt in 1529, and still standing — the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista is the oldest purpose-built cathedral in the Americas and the second-oldest existing cathedral on the continent. It holds the tomb of Juan Ponce de León and a shrine to Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago, the first Caribbean-born layperson to be beatified. Pope Paul VI named it a minor basilica in 1978. It remains an active parish.