Culture & Lifestyle

Greater public support for democracy, which improved the scores of political participation and political culture, allowed Costa Rica to enter the list of "Full Democracies" in 2018, according to an index prepared by the British magazine The Economist. The...

Focus efforts on attracting students from careers in which Costa Rica is an international benchmark, doctoral students and teaching or administrative staff, and the development of joint titling programs could open the doors to Costa Rican universities to boost...

One of the great promises of Netflix for 2019 is the British series "Sex Education". This production seeks to break the great taboos that society has towards sexuality.The series, which presents content in tune with the changes in society,...

There are only hours left to say goodbye to the year 2018, to draw new projects towards our surroundings and, of course, for our spiritual being. A year of great news is going on, of experiences for Costa Ricans,...

Every 28th of December, Latin America commemorates this date as an opportunity to play tricks on the naive ones. However, it is a tradition of more than 2 thousand years ago, with a rather tragic origin. Throughout the centuries,...

Zapote is a district of the canton of San José, located east of the city. They have a special holiday celebration that takes place from Christmas day until the 1st week of January.  During it, a large bullring called...

Christmas is one of the most important holidays for the Western world, whose meaning - which traditionally commemorates the birth of Jesus -not only has a religious but also social and cultural connotation- with a legacy that has been...

A dish that is inevitable at the end-of-the-year celebrations is the baked turkey. This bird was known by the Spaniards in Mexico during the conquest, who named it "Gallina de Indias" (Indians' Hen).Then, European gastronomy coined the turkey as...

New Year’s Day is often looked at as the perfect time to make a whole new set of resolutions to go along with the new calendar year. Along with those new goals comes the realization that the year before...

Costa Rican writing style includes stories, novels, historical chronicles, and essays. Initially, in the 1900s, Costa Rican literature was categorized as genuine. Writings mainly focused and directed the daily lives of people in Costa Rica and how they were...