Ponce Travel Guide
The Parque de Bombas firehouse, Ponce. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Ponce is the island's second city, the Pearl of the South, built on 19th-century sugar wealth. The red-and-black Parque de Bombas firehouse and the Ponce Museum of Art are the landmarks; the historic zone holds well-preserved criollo architecture. Carnaval Ponceño is the island's great carnival.