Costa Rica Rich History Snapshots

We’ll select a variety of photographs that are a snapshot of days gone by. The rugged lifestyle, the rich culture, and the history can all be seen with these selections.

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Indigenous family in Tuis de Turrialba, Cartago 1907

First Cabécar school in Ujarrás south zone. First vocabularies in Cabécar. This at the initiative of Archaeologist Doris Stone. photo 1950

Photo from the Talamaca area which is the mountain ranges that cross Costa Rica and Panama. 1892

Chirripó- indigenous 1890

It was the Banco Nacional, in 1939, the last one that printed banknotes with the face of an indigenous Tico, it is said to be a painting based on the last king of Talamanca, Antonio Saldaña

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The Sacred Bean

The Sacred Bean

Long before it was a drink in a mug, coffee was a way of life in Costa Rica. The “golden bean” helped build roads, schools, and early prosperity, traveling the world in rough burlap sacks stamped “Café de Costa Rica.” Grown in rich volcanic soil and cool highland...

Fashion Flash: Express Your Best Self

Fashion Flash: Express Your Best Self

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Fashion Flash: Express Your Best Self.  When you are the best version of yourself, you bloom! It doesn’t mean being perfect, beautiful, or young. It just means bringing whoever you already are to your fullest potential for all to...

Scarlet Macaws Return to the Guanacaste

Scarlet Macaws Return to the Guanacaste

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Scarlet Macaws Return to the Guanacaste. In a flurry of crimson, blue and yellow feathers, seven scarlet macaws took flight into the green of the Costa Rican coastal forest, signaling the historic return of a species once vanquished...

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