Capilla del Cristo

[4][1] Travel guides list Capilla del Cristo as one of the must-see places of Old San Juan.

[9][10] Images of the chapel's facade are quite popular, and sometimes featured on the covers of Puerto Rican travel guides as well as on canvas prints, posters, and mug souvenirs.

[1] The chapel was built where the fateful race was said to have occurred in honor of the young rider named Baltazar Montañez.

[17] Different versions of the legend mention that either the rider or Tomas Mateo Pratts, an observer yelled for divine intervention.

[4][18] In a book about Puerto Rican legends, José Ramirez-Rivera writes that the horse was killed but Baltazar lived.

Altar of Capilla del Cristo, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith