Attractions

National Theater

This 1897 palace was recently considered by Mexico's Ex-President Vicente Fox more beautiful than any existing building in Mexico. Admire the nineteen Century Italian paintings, the gold finishing and marble statues. At the same time it offers opera, theater or musical shows of international and famous performers.

Official Site: http://www.teatronacional.go.cr

Pre-Columbian Gold Museum

Will bring us back to a golden past while we discover the more than 1600 pieces representing marvelous animals and geometrical forms that have been made by mastered aborigine artisans in pre-Columbian time.

Official Site: http://www.museosdelbancocentral.org

National Museum

Located in an old military fortress the National Museum tells the stay of Costa Rica back thousands of years. Devices of ceramics, stone and jade relate the history that 12 000 years began to be written. Admire the mystery of the perfect round rock spheres. Discover the great art objects of the colonial period.

Official Site: http://www.museocostarica.go.cr/index.php?lang=en_EN

Jade Museum

Jade Museum, the world's largest collection of pre – Colombian jade and the only museum of its kind in the American continent, displays more than 6,000 pieces, of jade, clay, stone and gold artifacts, dating primarily from 300 BC to AD 700.

Official Site: http://portal.ins-cr.com/Social/MuseoJade