costa rica history

It’s surprising that not many Ticos have visited the Guayabo National Monument, found in northwest Turrialba, in the province of Cartago. This protected site holds clues into human history. The…

Exactly 100 years ago, Costa Rica was also fighting a pandemic. Meetings were prohibited and the school year suspended. At that time, it was the Spanish flu causing all the…

During a restoration, an original wall of the old Lehmann Bookshop was discovered. After the original construction, it was covered but it will be restored and featured once again. The…

The UCR has confirmed that the rock that fell in San Carlos is a meteor and that it is approximately 4.56 billion years old. The initial studies indicate that it…

Faithful pilgrims returned once more to the ruins of Ujarrás yesterday starting at 7am. They started at the church in Paraíso de Cartago and traveled to the historic ruins of…

Three meteorites are known to have fallen in Costa Rica. The most well known is called “Heredia,” after the place where it fell on April 1, 1857. The people in…

Costa Rica News – Days before Costa Rica celebrates the 70th anniversary of the abolition of its army, the Government of President Carlos Alvarado Quesada expressed its firm support for the…

Costa Rica Entertainment – The Costa Rican film “1948,” a new documentary by Andrés Heidenreich, shows the civil war from critical eyes. It commemorates the 70th anniversary of the armed conflict.…