As part of this same historical-cultural circuit of San José, unique in Central America, you can see beautiful buildings of the same neoclassic architecture, which were built by our ancestors seeking to have a uniform and beautiful capital city.
For example, you can visit the National Theater adjacent to the Hotel, the Melico Salazar Theater, located on the West side of Gran Hotel Costa Rica, facing the Central Park and the Metropolitan Cathedral, which offers plays, dance, child shows, music, opera and folklore shows.
At the end of your tour around the capital city of San José, you can enjoy lunch or dinner at the historical terrace of our Coffee Shop 1930, next to the Juan Mora Fernández Square, as well as the live piano music we offer, while you watch the events of daily life in the small Costa Rica from Gran Hotel Costa Rica.
The Gran Hotel Costa Rica offers 104 ample carpeted rooms, with view towards the National Theater and Culture Square; bathroom with a bathtub, satellite TV, restaurant and piano bar open twenty four hours a day, coffee shop-terrace, halls for special events, laundry service, ice cream parlor, drugstore, brazilian leather store.
Nearby Points of Interest
National Theater
This 1897 palace was recently considered by Mexico's President Vicente Fox more beautiful than any existing building in Mexico. Admire the nineteen Century Italian paintings the gold finishing and marble statues. At the same time attend at night the opera, theater or musical shows of international and famous performers.
Official Site: http://www.teatronacional.go.cr
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 Pre-Columbian Gold Museum
Will bring us back to a golden past while we discover the more than 1600 pieces representing marvelous animals and geometrical forms that has been made by mastered aborigine artisans.
Official Site: http://www.museosdelbancocentral.org
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 National Museum
The National Museum is located in San José, capital of Costa Rica,
Street 17, between Central and Second Avenues, on Cuesta de Moras, to the east side of Plaza de la Democracia. Devices of ceramics, stone and jade relate the history that does 12 000 years began to write.
Official Site: http://www.museocostarica.go.cr/index.php?lang=en_EN
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 Jade Museum
Jade Museum, the world's largest collection of pre – Colombian jade and the only museum of its kind in the American continent, that display more than 6,000 pieces, of jade, clay, stone and gold artifacts, dating primarily from 300 BC to AD 700.
Official Site: http://portal.ins-cr.com/Social/MuseoJade/
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Also see:
- National Theater – adjacent
- Plaza de la Culture – adjacent
- Omni Mall – 1 block
- Gold Museum – adjacent
- Jade Museum – 3 blocks
- Central Park – 2 blocks
- Metropolitan Cathedral – 2 blocks
- Melico Salazar Theater - 1 block
Nearest major airport
Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO): Approximate driving time is 25 minutes and distance is 12 km (7 miles).
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