Puerto Rico's Christopher Columbus Statue Survives Hurricane Maria Residents of Arecibo love the 350-foot-tall statue, which they hoped would bring tourists to their region. But they aren't fond ...

There’s a 350-Foot Statue of Columbus in Puerto Rico. Indigenous People Want It Gone. It’s the tallest sculpture in North America, and locals say it’s “an embarrassment.” ...

To find the tallest statue in the Western Hemisphere, take Puerto Rico Highway 22 west from San Juan.After about an hour, if you take an exit and a few turns, you’ll get to a narrow two-lane ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A proposal to erect a colossal statue of Christopher Columbus on an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico has revived a debate about the fate of a bronze work that has been ...

While the statue ended up in Puerto Rico, the work of art was originally planned to have been a donation to the U.S. to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s landfall in 1492.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Unknown people toppled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in the pre-dawn hours of Monday ahead of a visit of Spain’s King Felipe VI to the U.S ...

Unknown people have toppled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León ahead of a visit of Spain's King Felipe VI to the U.S. Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico was under Spanish rule until the year 1898, when it was transferred to the United States after the Spanish-American war. In June of 2020, a statue of Ponce de León in Florida was ...

Unknown people have toppled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León ahead of a visit of Spain's King Felipe VI to the U.S. Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Unknown people toppled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in the pre-dawn hours of Monday ahead of a visit of Spain’s King Felipe VI to the U.S. Caribbean ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Unknown people toppled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in the pre-dawn hours of Monday ahead of a visit of King Felipe VI to the U.S. Caribbean territory ...