Most of the attractions of San José are located in the center, nearby. For example, the National Costa Ricika National Theater is located on the culture area (Plaza de La Cultura) - one of the main cultural facilities of the country.
The theater was built at the end of the nineteenth century and is interesting in the internal interiors in the style of neoclassicism, as well as the painting of the walls and the ceiling.
The theater building decorate the statues over the theater's front staircase, you can see the famous picture of the Italian artist Alearcho Villa "Alegoría De Cafe Y Banano", the same picture is on the back of the back side, which has already come out of the appeal of bills, dignity in five Costaric columns.
CUNUER, as a souvenir can be purchased in the souvenir shop at the theater. At the building every hour, from 9 am to 18.00 in the evening there are excursions in Spanish and English. Excursion costs $ 7.
Almost opposite the National Theater is the Museum of Decolumbian Gold Museum.
As expected, based on the name of the museum, here you can see a fairly extensive collection of gold figures and decorations.
In addition, the museum has an exposition dedicated to the life of the indigenous Indians of Costa Rica to the Precolumbovsky period, under one roof with the gold museum, the museum of numismatics, one at one entrance ticket can be examined by everything inside. Opening hours from 9.00 to 17.00, the entrance costs 9 dollars.
Ten walks of the central avenue from the previous museum - and you are near the five-story gray building of the Jade Museum (Museo Nacional Del Jade).
This is quite a large museum in which the largest collection of jade products in the world is stored, there are halls where archaeological finds are exhibited - the tools of labor, which were used to work with jade the Indians, a lot of specific ceramics and so on. The museum works daily from 10.00 to 17.00, the cost of the entrance ticket - 15 dollars.
From Museo Jade, through the Square of Democracy, you can get to the National Museum of Costa Rica.
After visitors go beyond the museum, it is necessary to pass the butterflies garden to the building - a wonderful start of the excursion. In the National Museum, several permanent expositions dedicated to the history of the country, archeology and modern art, in addition, in the museum are constantly being a variety of exhibitions. The building occupied by the museum was previously used as barracks for the military and until now on some walls there are traces of bullets. The cost of visiting is $ 8, the museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 8.30 to 16.30.
If all of the above museums can be visited by walking from one to another, then the Children's Museum (Museo de Los Niños) from the city center will have to take a taxi. To visit the museum, by the way, it will be interesting not only for children of different ages, but also adults.
The museum has several thematic interactive rooms where children, for example, can get acquainted with the device of the solar system or the evolution of the development of space technology and even try on the role of an astronaut, get acquainted with the ecosystem and history of Costa Rica or to visit the body or radio studios. There is a hall dedicated to the Jurassic period, its own dairy farm and cooking courses for the whole family.
The museum is indeed very interesting and informative, exhibitions are working for the smallest here, where you can learn how to learn how to learn the account and Azam geometry. On the territory you can have a snack in the buffet. From Tuesday to Friday, the museum works from 8.30 to 16.30, on Saturday and Sunday from 9.30 to 17.00. A ticket will cost $ 6 for an adult and 4 dollars for a child.
The largest park of San Jose is located near the children's museum - La Sabana Park. This is also one of the sights of the city. The park itself is very beautiful and absolutely safe, there are gazebo, benches, sports grounds, playgrounds and specially equipped places for a picnic.
In the park, in the building of the former terminal already a non-existent airport, there is a Museum of Art of Costa Rica.
This is a small, but quite an interesting museum, with a mass of modern artists, in the yard the garden of sculptures, where you can find a few sculptures of the famous sculptor Jorge Himenes Dedia. The park also built a new large stadium Estadio Nacional.
