Most of the complaints about it are true - it is crowded and dirty and lacks character. There are a profusion of people selling lottery tickets and those selling other things - fruit, mostly - cry their wares from every corner.
Even so, the center of town is impressively pedestrianized, and I made my way over to La Plaza de la Cultura:
Grr, the Gold Museum was closed - for how long, they didn't know. So I made my way over to the Costa Rican Art museum:
Which happens to front the city park, La Sabana:
The museum itself was quite small and not terribly interesting. The Modern Art Museum is said to be better.
What gets me is how very similar it is to downtown Cebu City (although less dirty and not so damn hot). I guess that really is the Spanish colonial style.
By the way, I should probably mention something about Costa Rica: they don't believe in addresses. Everything is notated in relation to other things. Instead of saying '120 Avenida Central' they'll say 'Avenida Central 100 meters south of the Iglesia de San Martin and 50 meters east of the bus stop etc.'. It's gets very confusing very quickly. Even though central San Jose is laid out on a grid pattern, I couldn't use the street signs because there weren't any. Well, preguntando se llega a Roma.
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I found the postal address system to be cute... except one has to gain a good sense of meters =p
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