Culture & Lifestyle

Get To Know The Ancestral Indigenous Gastronomy Of Costa Rica

Get To Know One of the firsts of ancestral Costa Rican gastronomy is not to kill more animals than have to be consumed and take advantage of all parts of the animal.In other words, nature and its natural cycle...

Romantic Honeymoon in Costa Rica…

Costa Rica is the best example that in a small piece of land great wonders can be hidden, so it is not surprising that our lands are a sought-after tourist destination

Do You Know How Many Languages Exist in Costa Rica?

In Costa Rica, the official language is Spanish, constitutionally, but although the country is considered small it presents a diverse linguistic panorama with more than 10 languages that converge and are respected. In this article we will talk a...

Jorge Jiménez Deredia, a Gifted and World-Renowned Costa Rican Sculptor

All in Costa Rica is incredible. From the rural farming villages to the brightly colored rain forests, there is always something to see and admire. The country also treasures a wide variety of art and history museums and has...

The Costa Rican folk tradition

The Costa Rican folk tradition has diverse cultural manifestations that include music, dance, legends, traditions, songs, popular proverbs, tales, sayings, romances, riddles, which are common and recognizable by the majority of the population of the country and which are...

Parable #7: If It’s Not Yours, Don’t Touch It

(This week is the tenth installment of the book, “The Band Director’s Lessons About Life”, which TCRN is publishing as a series during 2020. This week, band director and spiritual author Donald Lee relates a parable about recognizing what’s...

Margarita Bertheau and Teodorico Quirós Alvarado, Two Very Distinguished Costa Rican Plastic Artists

In the artistic expressions of our country, you can recognize a common thread through innumerable years of pre and post Columbian history, identifiable in myths, heroes, legends and popular expressions. Many techniques and styles have been practiced, and there...

César Valverde Vega: One of the Most Important Costa Rican Artists of Recent Times

César Valverde Vega (San José, March 8, 1928) was a Costa Rican painter, writer, and lawyer, planner, public official, and diplomat. He was one of the first muralists in Costa Rica and a member of "Grupo Ocho", a group...

The Steinvorth Building in San José and Its Impressive Architecture

The Steinvorth Building, also called the Steinvorth Warehouse, is a two-story building located in San José, Costa Rica. Built-in 1907 by the Italian Francesco Tenca Pedrazzini, commissioned by the brothers Wilhelm, Walter and Otto Steinvorth Ulex, German merchants based...

Icon of Costa Rican Literature: Yolanda Oreamuno

Yolanda Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer who ventured her works into essays, stories, and novels. She constitutes one of the most important personalities of Tico literature, being always Avant-garde in her life and work. She was the...
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 San José Municipality Cancels Zapote Fair Tender: Are Year-End Festivities at Risk?

The iconic year-end celebrations in San José, Costa Rica, face mounting uncertainty after the local government officially declared the...