Culture & Lifestyle

Costa Rica is identified as a country full of love for its culture, generated precisely from the multicultural ancestry. Before talking about the typical costumes, it is important to know a little bit about the history and traditions that...

The great family of EcoFeria Camino Real will be back in Dominical this Friday, July 13th, with a wonderful event that will give continuity to ecological education and integration through music, dances, agriculture, and natural spaces. With the initiatives...

This week, representatives of the National Theater of Costa Rica informed that within 2 months they will give tourists -and also Costa Rican citizens- the opportunity to enjoy incredible tours through the hidden areas of this national heritage.Many secrets...

Lovers of good cinema that were waiting for the new edition of the Costa Rica International Film Festival will now have to wait a bit longer since it has been suspended. This news was confirmed by the Vice Minister...

Every country has a special day of celebration of their birth as an independent nation. Costa Rica, for instance, received its independence from Spain on September 15th, 1821. In America, July 4th, 1776, is celebrated as the day the...

On July 4th, 1776, the United States achieved its independence from the United Kingdom, thus beginning the first representative democratic republic in the history of mankind. Today marks the 242nd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the country....

Australia. Its name has a double etymology. On the one hand, it derives from the Latin word Australis (“from the south”); that is, legends of an "unknown land of the south" (terra australis incognita), which date back to ancient...

The International Book Fair of Costa Rica 2018 (FILCR18) will be held from August 24th to September 2nd, in the Vieja Aduana complex. This set of buildings includes the Nave de Ladrillo, the Aduana Theater, the Explanada, the Casa...

Moroni. He is the Angel of the Saints of the Last Days. He appeared to Joseph Smith, in the state of New York. He told him where there were the gold tablets buried, and they both translated them and...

If after having read about the Ticos' idioms, you were left wanting to know more about the jargon that Costa Ricans use to refer to certain things or facts, then let's take a look at some of the most...