Parque Morazán Park, San José
Walk all along an iconic San José’s spot, the charming Parque Morazán, and discover its fabulous Music Temple
Parque Morazán Park
© Esteban Cervantes Jiménez
The Parque Morazán (Morazán Park) is located in the El Carmen district, on the convergence among 5th Street and 9th Street, 3rd Avenue, and 5th Avenue. This park is one of the most important ones of San José. It is surrounded by some other must-see places, like the emblematic Metal Building, the America House, the Maroy Building or the Spanish Park.
Parque Morazán, Costa Rica
© Robert Bruce
Parque Morazán was built in 1887 and, at first, it was called La Laguna Plaza, though it was later renamed as Francisco Morazán Park, name of the Honduran general who was president of the country for a while, and afterwards, he was shot in the Principal Plaza, what is now the Central Park.
The main attraction of the park is the Temple of Music. This monument is the work of the Costa Rican world-famous architect and artist José Francisco Salazar, built in 1920 with a neoclassical design is an exact replica of the Temple of Love and Music of Versailles. You can contemplate the bust of the selfsame Morazán, as well as the statue honouring Simón Bolívar, America’s Liberator.
There are also other busts and monuments in honour of other representative figures of Costa Rica and South America: the bust of the ex-president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the statues of Julio Acosta and Daniel Quirós (the latter, a work of the national artist Olger Villegas), the bust of Mauro Fernández Acuña, Homeland Liberator, and the bust of Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile’s Liberator.
Parque Morazán is characterised for being an ideal place where taking a breather as you can find the comforting and cool shades of tabaibas (called “trumpet trees”) and a place to have a pleasant rest.
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Location:
7th Street and 3rd Avenue, in El Carmen district, San José.
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San José
What to see:
- Parque Metropolitano La Sabana Park
- Parque Morazán Park
- Parque Nacional Park
- Parque Diversiones Park
- Parque España Park
- Central Park
- Parque Zoológico Simón Bolívar Zoo
- Spirogyra Butterfly Garden
- Parque de la Paz Park
- Parque Okayama Park
- Parque de la Merced Park
- Mercado Central
- Mercado Borbón Market
- Casa Amarilla
- Edificio Metálico
- Universidad de Costa Rica
- Edificio Luis Ollé Building
- Former Atlantic Train Station
- Alianza Francesa
- Edificio Maroy Building
- Edificio Herdocia Building
- Biblioteca Nacional
- Iglesia de la Merced
- Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Church
- Barrio Amón Neighbourhood
- Distrito Escazú District
- Teatro Nacional
- Teatro Melico Salazar Theatre
- Galería Nacional
- Teatro Auditorio Nacional
- Centro Costarricense de Ciencia y Cultura Centre
- Banco Central
- Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica
- Avenida Central
- Paseo Colón
- Catedral Metropolitana Cathedral
- Plaza de la Cultura
- Plaza de la Democracia
- Bulevar Ricardo Jiménez Boulevard
- Plaza de la Libertad Electoral
- Castillo Azul
- Fuente Hispanidad Fountain
- Teatro Variedades Theatre
- Plaza Juan Mora Fernández
Museums:
- Museo del Jade
- Gold Museum
- Museo de Numismática
- Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
- Museo Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Historical Museum
- Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo
- Museo de la Comunidad Judía de Costa Rica
- TEOR/ética
- Museo de Ciencias Naturales La Salle
- Museo Rafael Obregón Loría Masonic Museum Grand Lodge
- Children´s Museum
- Museo del Arte Costarricense
- Museo Filatélico y Numismático Museum
- Museo Histórico Agrícola Santa Ana Museum
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