Province of San Jose Trip Overview
Full day City Tour San Jose visit most interesting and cultural places with guide, we pick you up at your hotel in San Jose, Alajuela or Heredia
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Duration: 7 hours
Starts: Province of San Jose, Costa Rica
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Full day City Tour San Jose visit most interesting and cultural places with guide, we pick you up at your hotel in San Jose, Alajuela or Heredia
Itinerary
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Stop At: Museo de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, Sabana sur, dentro de las instalaciones del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San Jose Costa Rica
Private full day City Tour San Jose visit most interesting and cultural places with guide, we pick you up at your hotel in San Jose, Alajuela or Heredia.
We start the tour with your pick up at the hotel, to get into the San Jose City. First we will visit some museum with art and cultural information about Costa Rica.
First we will visit the La salle Museum, it has more than 70,000 pieces on display, with paleontology sections, magnificent replicas of large dinosaurs and specimens of fossils of primitive animals, geology, fossil specimens, rocks and minerals malacology, collection of shells and molluscs, has more than 14,000 specimens of some 5,000 species, invertebrates. Gather diverse material such as sponges, corals, scorpions, spiders, insects etc. Ornithology, the most varied birds in a collection of more than 1,400 specimens. Entomology, the best collection of butterflies and the largest in the country with 9,000 specimens, about 1,200 species, marine and freshwater fish, reptiles (crocodiles, iguanas, turtles, snakes), mammals (more than 400 specimens) and different species preserved.
Stop At: Teatro Nacional Costa Rica, Second Ave. and Fifth St., San Jose Costa Rica
The National Theater is a building of historicist architecture completed in the year of 1897. It is considered one of the most important buildings in national history, and the main architectural jewel of the city of San José. Its construction holds a profound significance given that it represents the decision of the Costa Rican at the time of taking action and economic stability (brought by the coffee harvest) and politics of the time in which it was built.
Stop At: Mercado Municipal De Artesanias, Calle 5 Y 7 Avenida 6 South Side Plaza de las Garantías Sociales, San Jose 10104 Costa Rica
We will have a typical Costa Rica lunch at one of the more recognized and popular restaurants in San Jose, to go after this at most colorful place, the market of souvenir. It is a market with history that was founded in 1994 and has become one of the tourist attractions of the city of San José, a place where numerous artisans who offer their unique handicrafts, such as ceramic pieces, meet. , jewelery, articles made of leather, paintings, traditional clothing, wood carvings, glass among many other items that can be seen and bought to take a good memory.
Then we will visit some Costa Rica’s monuments very representatives for its culture.
