Parque del Tricentenario was created in 1992 to celebrate Ponce’s 300th anniversary. One of its three plazas is named Plaza de la Arquitectura or alternatively The Francisco Porrata-Doría Plaza. Its namesake is Francisco Porrata-Doría. He was a prolific architect of commercial buildings and luxury residences in Ponce until his death in 1971. The inscription on this rotunda reads, “Ponce is tradition, culture, spirit, civism, illusion and virtue.”