San Jose Culture and Sights

Don’t visit the National Theater in San José just for its café…. Begun in 1891, this building, modeled on the Paris Opera, opened with “Faus”t in 1897. With its marble steps and frescos, gilded foyer a...

Costa Rica’s history at a glance. Set on a hill overlooking the capital, Costa Rica’s National Museum was once Fort Bellavista, the headquarters of the country’s one-time army. Its historical collectio...

The Jademuseum showing jewelry, ceramics and Jadesteine from the vorkolumbischen era (7000 exhibits). Given that Costa Rica is not Jade is the precious stone probably from Guatemala and Mexico have be...

In the zoo in Barrio Amon are essentially animals from the forests of Costa Rica on hold. While you in parks mainly monkeys, iguanas and birds meet, fall into this zoo also snakes, predators and wild ...

A striking bronze monument built in 1885 reminiscent of the abolition of slavery and the fact that five Central American states annex by William Walker resisted. Av. 1 / C. 15-19

The neo-Gothic church (1894) has a finely crafted wooden ceiling, and its organ is the largest in Central America. In the park in front of the church can be seen one of those huge American Indian gran...