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1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - One of the elaborately carved metates that date back to AD 500. The more ornate metates were not just for grinding corn but were often buried with nobles, presumably to assist them make tortillas in the afterlife.
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - A statue of the country's revolutionary leader "Don Pepe" Figueres stands in the Plaza de la Democracia at the foot of the fortress. Somehow we expected him to be more imposing.
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - Our first hotel in San Jose was Rosa del Paseo, a converted private home once owned by a rich coffee grower.
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - The Rosa del Paseo was an elegantly furnished bed-and-breakfast.
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - Around 5 p.m. each day a band of several retired musicians called La Neuva Marimba San Jose conducts an impromptu concert in the middle of the city.
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - Several hundred people routinely finish their workday by gathering to hear La Neuva Marimba San Jose.
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - As the band picked up the pace several ticos and ticas took to the plaza for a lively Latin salsa (or was it a rumba?).
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - Monuments are important to Costa Rican culture - especially those that depict the common worker.
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - Costa Ricans seem to embrace diminutives - the term "Tico" for example - and these statues outside of Banco Central are a good reflection of how Ticos depict themselves.
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - One of the elaborately carved metates that date back to AD 500. The more ornate metates were not just for grinding corn but were often buried with nobles, presumably to assist them make tortillas in the afterlife.

> SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - One of the elaborately carved metates that date back to AD 500. The more ornate metates were not just for grinding corn but were often buried with nobles, presumably to assist them make tortillas in the afterlife.
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - One of the elaborately carved metates that date back to AD 500. The more ornate metates were not just for grinding corn but were often buried with nobles, presumably to assist them make tortillas in the afterlife.

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