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San Jose Map, Costa Rica

If you feel like you need some help to find your way in your destination city, you are in the right place. This San Jose Map will certainly help you to seek out the best restaurants, clubs and sights in town. You want to know what is the best place for a walk? Or what you should be watching out for during your visit? Learn more about the best things to do in the city reading our travel tips and then get around in San Jose with Travelgrove's map. While searching for places, you can also check some cheap flights or deals or you can take a look at our user's galleries about the city. We hope you will find our city map of San Jose useful. Enjoy your trip and come back to share your travel experience about San Jose!

San Jose Travel Guide

Another attraction for people enjoy the outdoors is the Lankester Botanical Gardens at the outskirts of San José. The garden sits on 27.2 acres and is home to over 3000 species of plants, principally epiphytes, including orchids and bromeliads. Now how beautiful would that be? read more

San Jose Nightlife

There are two popular theatres in San Jose that have frequent night performances and some matinees. These two theatres are the National Theatre (Teatro Nacional) and the Teatro Popular Melico Salazar. There are plays, operas, dances and music that are performed in these Costa Rican theaters. Tickets are normally cheap ranging anywhere from $2 to $40. San Jose also has a variety of Casinos all throughout the city. You... read more

San Jose History

Less than one hundred years after the establishment of San José, Costa Rica became independent from Spanish rule because of the Mexican Revolution. However, all Central American countries, including Costa Rica, fell under the rule of the First Mexican Empire. Costa Ricans that resided in the provinces of Alajuela and San José were furious by this decision while the residents in the capital city of Cartago and... read more

San Jose Sightseeing

Catedral Metropolitana or Metropolitan Cathedral - here you will be able to view stained glass windows picturing saints and apostles, beautifully tiled floors, the fourteen stations of the cross and a praying station that lights electronic candles. This cathedral was built in 1871 and renovated in the 90s due to an earthquake that damaged it. read more