But by 1949, now an American territory coming out of the Spanish-American War, Old San Juan was posed for a revival, and the Caribe Hilton was at the center of Puerto Rico’s new era. Now a ...

It opened in 1949 as a Hilton but it was owned by the government of Puerto Rico until 1990, when it was sold to Hilton International for $80 million. Elizabeth Taylor put the hotel on the map when ...