Culture & Lifestyle
Salvadorans and Colombians ask for refuge in Costa Rica
The majority of requests for refuge in Costa Rica are made by citizens of El Salvador and Colombia, indicated the Ministry of the Interior.Our country annually receives refugee applications from more than 40 different nationalities.Data was delivered as part...
Health
Yoga Class Offering in San José for International Yoga Day
The Costa Rica News has teamed up with several studios from around the country to offer free yoga classes to those interested as a way to celebrate International Yoga Day on Tuesday, June 21st! Some of the studios that...
Culture & Lifestyle
Circo del Sol and La Libertad Park train circus artists
From June 6th to June 11th the second stage of the "Basic Training in Social Circus" was held in the Parque La Libertad by Mariano Lopez and Antonio Benitez, trainers with more than 10 years of experience in the...
Culture & Lifestyle
Costa Rica: happiest country of Latín America
The ticos are happy people, but not just any happy people - the happiest of all of Latín America. That is what the World Happiness Report of 2016 revealed, who again gave Costa Rica the crown of happiness, since...
Culture & Lifestyle
The Yoga Lifestyle
Yoga lifestyle is a life of balance between “cleaning mind,& body” and “spreading the light”. Thus yoga lifestyle is about purifying the mind and keeping the body healthy. We have to be clean and pure to catch the light...
Culture & Lifestyle
Guide to the best bars in San José
It’s finally Friday! And we know that many walk around, looking for where to go out at night, with friends or as a couple, to dance and enjoy San José’s nightlife. Because of this, we traveled to the best bars...
Culture & Lifestyle
List of districts with Zika alerts
If you go on vacation, enlist in your suitcase mosquito repellent, as the Ministry of Health declared a state of emergency in 31 counties of the country by the presence of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits a dangerous...
Culture & Lifestyle
The benefits of Yoga
With international yoga day coming next Tuesday I decided to look into exactly how yoga can make a difference in one’s life. As someone who’s always been into running and traditional weight lifting I’ve often struggled with flexibility and many...
Culture & Lifestyle
Costa Rica’s forgotten car industry
Costa Rica’s forgotten car industryIt might be hard to imagine now, but in the 70’s Costa Rica was recognized worldwide for producing cars. Nearly forgotten, the model “Amigo” by General Motors, was a car with the Tico stamp...
Culture & Lifestyle
382 people registered to use public bikes in Cartago on the initiative’s first day
Cartago is one of the frontrunners of alternative urban transport. The evidence of this is that they’re the first section of the country to start a public bicycle program for citizens.The initiative started Tuesday and on that day alone...
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National Symphony Orchestra to Offer Six Free Concerts in Desamparados, Santa Ana, and Guanacaste
With a musical repertoire that includes works by Gioachino Rossini, Leroy Anderson, John Williams, Vinicio Meza, and Carlos Guzmán,...