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The idea of ​​creating the first hotel in Costa Rica and the little big at that time came in 1920, when coffee exports bloom became our core business, around which the socio-cultural
country's life took place.


These eminent men traveled to Europe to develop and commercialize the product value in our economy
was born. Inspired by the beauty of the Paris Opera, promoted the opening of our National Theatre in 1897, a replica of the magnificent building in the quiet French
City of San José.

It was followed in 1930 by the opening of the Gran Hotel Costa Rica, with a majestic five-story building has 120 rooms, a beautiful example of neoclassical architecture, located opposite the place where the statue of former Costa Rica president, Juan Mora Fernández, on the screen, and the magnificent National Theatre diagonal. It was an important event for the country that the Government of the Republic decided to build the road to the Poas and Irazu to promote foreign tourism.

Great people and celebrities who have visited our country have stayed at the Gran Hotel Costa Rica, as U.S. Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, sports and movie stars like Pele, John Wayne, Cantinflas, Julio Iglesias, among others.

In the 21st century, the Gran Hotel Costa Rica, in collaboration with the National Theatre, The Arches, Juan Mora Fernández Square, Square Cultural Square, Pre-Columbian Gold Museum and the beautiful buildings that surround considered part our heritage, according to the circuit of our historical and cultural capital.

Gran Hotel Costa Rica maintains its exquisite style of architecture, reminiscent of delicate since the beginning of 1900, where visitors can begin the 21st century to visit the capital city. Right outside our hotel, you can be inspired by the architectural beauty of the National Theater of Costa Rica, the most visited by tourists. Inside the theater, you can enjoy the beautiful
finishes, antique furniture, beautiful paintings and sculptures, as well as the best concerts, operas and theater night.



After enjoying the National Theatre on the east side of Gran Hotel Costa Rica to visit the underground museum located in the Plaza de la Cultura, the impressive Pre-Columbian Gold Museum of Costa Rica, which houses a large collection of over 2,000 objects or archaeological treasure , art and history of the indigenous groups living in Costa
Rica.

You can enjoy the National Museum jade located 300 meters north of the Gran Hotel Costa Rica, which is currently the only pre-Columbian jade museum today, with the greatest exposure to this type of collection. And you can not miss the ancient fortress of Bella Vista, now in the National Museum, located 400 meters east of the Gran Hotel Costa Rica. It is an ancient and majestic fort built in 1917, considered as part of our heritage, and that, after the abolition of the army in Costa Rica, it became the seat of the National Museum, a museum founded in 1897.

The museum has occupied several public buildings in San Jose, who eventually settled in 1949 in the building formerly occupied by the strength of Bella Vista. The National Museum has a
has 45,000 pre-Columbian artifacts, stone and ceramics, paintings and sculptures of religious art, historically valuable documents, stamps, textiles, weapons and antique furniture, among others.

The National Herbarium is located in the same museum with 190,000 specimens, including 60,000 insects, 8,000 birds of Costa Rica, as well as rocks, fossils, mollusks and vertebrates.