One day in San José, Costa Rica

A day through San José, Costa Rica’s best-known sights that lie close together: Metropolitan Cathedral of San José, National Theatre of Costa Rica, Pre-Columbian Gold Museum, Plaza de la Democracia, National Museum of Costa Rica and Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar. 6 stops, about 1.5 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Metropolitan Cathedral of San JoséCathedral · On the map
  2. National Theatre of Costa RicaTheatre or opera house · 0.2 km on from Metropolitan Cathedral of San José · On the map
  3. Pre-Columbian Gold MuseumMuseum · Next to National Theatre of Costa Rica · On the map
  4. Plaza de la DemocraciaSquare · 0.5 km on from Pre-Columbian Gold Museum · On the map
  5. National Museum of Costa RicaMuseum · 0.1 km on from Plaza de la Democracia · On the map
  6. Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón BolívarZoo or aquarium · 0.7 km on from National Museum of Costa Rica · On the map

6 stops, 2 km on foot along the streets: about 28 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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