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Arts Festival Opening and Video of Fireworks
Officals from the municipality of San Jose inaugurated the Seventh Annual Transitarte Festival in Morazan Park on Friday evening.
Transitarte Program Agenda
The official opening to the Transitarte or Summer Art Festival in San Jose was Friday night, however the majority of the events are programmed for Saturday and Sunday. Download Transitarte 2010 Agenda
Summer Arts Festival in San Jose is This Weekend
The annual Summer Arts Festival starts on Friday morning, and this year the Transitarte festival promises not to disappoint. While the temperature in San Jose topped 75 degrees today the weather report for the weekend calls for some rain. Hopefully that won’t be enough to spoil the festival, which continues through Sunday evening.
Maple Cafe Fills Gap Left by Nashville South Bar
Take a look just beyond the southwest corner of Parque Morazan and you will notice the Maple Cafe, which occupies the building that formerly housed the Nashville South Bar. Of course the Nashville Bar was a famous North American watering hole that gasped its final breath in April of last year. Ask around and a [...]
International Festival of Chinese Culture in San Jose
This week marks the beginning of a festival of Chinese Culture in San Jose, Costa Rica. The festival opened with a ceremony at the National Auditorium, located in the San Jose Childern’s Museum on Monday. The purpose of the festival is to promote Costa Rican Chinese Relations.
Variedades Theatre Shows First Run Movies for $2
Constructed in 1892 as a theatre for live performances, and making the switch to film in 1920 the Variedades Theatre has long been a fixture in San Jose. The location just off the Plaza de Cultura makes it easy to find, and if you live downtown it’s perhaps the easiest theatre to reach on foot. [...]
Pre-Columbian Gold Exhibit at BCCR Museum
The San Jose Gold Museum as it is commonly referred to in English is technically the Museum of the Banco Central de Costa Rica (BCCR), and the Pre-Columbian Gold Exhibit (Oro Precolombiano) occupies the bottom floor. The two other floors consist of an art exhibit and numismatic exhibit of Costa Rican money and coinage. The [...]
Video of Roda de Capoeira in Morazan Park
On Sunday afternoons a group of young people come to Morazan Park in downtown San Jose to participate in a Roda de Capoeira. The park is popular with young artists many of whom come from the nearby CENAC or “Centro Nacional de Arte y Cultura”, and the dome structure is called the Temple of Music, [...]
Go Fly a Kite in San Jose, Costa Rica
Parque de La Paz or “Park of The Peace” is located just south of downtown San Jose and provides a green space with hills and lakes that is perfect for among other things flying a kite. Of course the central valley is known for its robust gusts of wind and a year round daytime temperature [...]
Merry Christmas Calypso Style
We hope you enjoy this song which was performed at CENC in downtown San Jose, which is just next to Parque Espana. The event was part of the annual Christmas Festival.
