Last class, was an unknown adventure for me... We suddenly decided to go to San Isidro to enjoy the patronal feast of this town, motivated by the professor who took advantage of the opportunity to enrich our culture class with some concrete experiences. I have always enjoy "turnos" as we call them in Costa Rica.
We all have our favorite thing to do there, some people just go to eat the "traditional food" that is offered and some other prefer to enjoy the activities such as concerts, entertainment machines, bingos, and so on.
Something that called my attention was the Colonial Catholic Church, probably because of my religious heritage, so I decided to research more about this region and I found out many interesting things that provide an overview of this beautiful place.
The name of San Isidro was chose randomly by religious authorities in that time. And they chose it because he was the Saint Patron of Spain. San Isidro was very important geographically because of their mountains and the water they pour over other regions including the "Central Valley", and it still happens. During the pre-colombian period it was ocuped by the "Huetar" tribe which was one of the most powerful groups at that time where and when the "Cacique YorustÃ" used to live. A lot of indian artcrafts and sculptures have been found and digged after years of being under ground as proof of their cultural heritage. One of the most relavant findings related to our pre-colombian history and culture is a big and ceremonial table stone sculped called " Metate" which is an anthropological find that have only occured in "San Rafael de Coronado" and "San Isidro de Heredia". These monolithic altars were used for agricultural and religious ceremonies.
After the Costa Rican ex-president Julio Acosta and during many years the coffee agriculture was the economical support for this region and its main activity.
The experience was very interesting and funny, we could appreciate some typical escenarios from this "cantón".
References
Skycrapercity.com
We all have our favorite thing to do there, some people just go to eat the "traditional food" that is offered and some other prefer to enjoy the activities such as concerts, entertainment machines, bingos, and so on.
Something that called my attention was the Colonial Catholic Church, probably because of my religious heritage, so I decided to research more about this region and I found out many interesting things that provide an overview of this beautiful place.
The name of San Isidro was chose randomly by religious authorities in that time. And they chose it because he was the Saint Patron of Spain. San Isidro was very important geographically because of their mountains and the water they pour over other regions including the "Central Valley", and it still happens. During the pre-colombian period it was ocuped by the "Huetar" tribe which was one of the most powerful groups at that time where and when the "Cacique YorustÃ" used to live. A lot of indian artcrafts and sculptures have been found and digged after years of being under ground as proof of their cultural heritage. One of the most relavant findings related to our pre-colombian history and culture is a big and ceremonial table stone sculped called " Metate" which is an anthropological find that have only occured in "San Rafael de Coronado" and "San Isidro de Heredia". These monolithic altars were used for agricultural and religious ceremonies.
After the Costa Rican ex-president Julio Acosta and during many years the coffee agriculture was the economical support for this region and its main activity.
The experience was very interesting and funny, we could appreciate some typical escenarios from this "cantón".
References
Skycrapercity.com
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