Iglesia de Porta Coeli

The name means "Gateway to Heaven" in Latin, and the Dominican Order built this chapel at the crest of a hill in San Germán in 1609 — one of the oldest surviving church structures in the Western Hemisphere. It changed hands for a dollar in 1949, was restored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, and by 1960 had become the Religious Art Museum of Porta Coeli — the first of its kind on the island. The collection runs to Baroque altarpieces, wooden carvings, and a Black Virgin of Montserrat statuette.