Ponce De Leon Statue

  

At 4’11” tall, the statue of Ponce de Leon is a life-size representation of the first European to discover Florida. During his first voyage to Florida in 1513, many historians believe that he made landfall in St. Augustine (though there are other locations further south that may also be the landing location including Melbourne Beach and Ponce de Leon Inlet). Regardless, on April 2, 1513, Ponce de Leon went ashore somewhere along the east coast and named this new land La Florida and claimed it for Spain. The statue of Ponce de Leon was donated Dr. Andrew Anderson (a local St. Augustine philanthropist who also commissioned and donated the two lions at the entrance to the Bridge of Lions) in 1923 and is replica of the statue found in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

 

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