Parque de Bombas

Built in 1882 as an exhibition pavilion, this red-and-black wooden building at Plaza Las Delicias became Puerto Rico's first fire station the following year and served that role for over a century. Its colors were so embedded in Ponce's identity that the city adopted them for its municipal flag in 1967. In 1990, the firefighters left and the museum moved in. The inscription inside says it plainly: the Ponce Firefighters Corps remains symbolically on this plaza, in the heart of the city.