San José Syear is located on a small plate surrounded of two picturesque assembly lines. There are no houses of the colonial time with San. That is less due to the seisms which shake this town of time to other than with its late foundation, in 1737.
At that time, San was not the capital, it became it only in 1823.
Its inhabitants, Josefinos, are extremely pleasant and obliging. Their dyes clear surprises the visitor, just as the fair hair and the blue eyes the many commercial ones.

Cultural attractions:
Some museums of San
- the museum of Gold
It constitutes certainly one of the most beautiful jewels of the Latin America with those of Bogota in Colombia and Lima in Peru.
- the Jade museum
It constitutes the largest jade précolombienne collection of the American continent.
The national museum. One finds there, a room devoted to the Costa Rican civilization which tells the history of the country. A room which pays homage to the Nobel Prize of Peace received by the President Oscar Sanchez Arias in 1987. The museum contains also many parts of sacred art, objects précolombiens, it is the memory of the country.

Tourist attractions:
Esmeralda with San, is the place where the men come to seek the trios or the mariachis to give the serenade to their wife or been engaged. From 11 p.m. you can benefit from the music played by the trios which await the customers. Environment is cordial and alcohol runs with flood until the early morning.
The national Theatre is probably the building whose Costa Rican ones are proudest and this room, largest of the country, sees to occur all the most important events there from the nation. It was inaugurated in 1897, because 7 years earlier large and celebrates professional singer due to give up giving a representation fault of a suitable place. Restored after the terrible earthquake of 1992, it is as beautiful today as in 1897.
Other places:
Among the districts of San, Barrio Amon is one of oldest. Barrio Otoya is also one of oldest, one can see in the zoological gardens Simon Bolivar of splendid trees centenaries.
Central Mercado and Mercado Borbon, beside an infinity of fruit and vegetables, one also finds objects out of leather and statuettes out of wooden.