Costa Rica has one of the best cultural
preservation systems of Central America. During your stay you will surely have
the opportunity to visit one of the thousands of museums of the country and
have an experience of cultural tourism in Costa Rica.
Costa Ricans, also known as “Ticos”, are
famous for being very hospitable people. This is a very important mark of
cultural tourism in Costa Rica. People of Costa Rica are very peaceful, so much
that this is one of the few countries in the world that do not have an army.
Culture of Costa Rica is very diverse
thanks especially to the multiculturalism of its people: thousands of years of
immigration allowed a mix, very typical of American countries, between native
people and immigrants from Africa, Italy, China and plenty countries of
different corners of the World. So this makes that one of the best ways to know
the culture and way of life of Costa Rica is to approach to its people.
A great part of cultural heritage of Costa
Rica is, naturally, due to pre-Colombian civilizations, which legacy is well
conserved in Costa Rican museums: the most notable collections include gold,
jade, pre-Colombian pieces, colonial religious art and contemporary art.
As natural, the most important museums of
Costa Rica are located in the capital city, San Jose, where you can find the
National Museum of Costa Rica and the Museum of Costa Rican Art. However there
are many local museums, called community museums, mainly focused on
bio-diversity preservation and native people cultural heritage. All of them
very interesting, but remarkable ones are the Abangares Mines museum, the
Indigenous Boruca museum and the Chortega Ceramics museum in San Vicente in the
province of Nicoya.
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