Today Cartago makes the promised completion of the small series on the provinces of Costa Rica.
capital city of Cartago (pop. 156.600)
Area 3.124 km ^ 2
population 432.395 (2001)
Density 138 / km ^ 2
On 2 August is that time again, then all of Costa Rica pilgrimage to Cartago. Very young to very old does then, sometimes for several days at the most important pilgrimage destination in all of Costa Rica. The aim of the place where wood is supposedly a virgin was found on a stone in a river. After she had taken a girl home and stowed in the closet, she was gone the next morning again. The girl was looking through the house, but found no trace of the wooden figure. Only when she went to fetch water the next time they saw the maiden again on the same place where they have the first Time has been waiting to be found. When she disappeared again this time out of the closet the girl that realized that the figure would not be removed from their ancestral place. Then the people of Cartago have a church built right on the river and the Virgin so created an appropriate home. At least that's the story of the Virgin of Cartago.
Cartago was until 1823 the capital of Costa Rica and thus strongly influenced colonial. Really old building are found not only the ruins of an unfinished cathedral still not. Due to its location, right on the slopes of Irazu, the area makes it very susceptible to earthquakes, and so was the city in Throughout history, several times almost completely destroyed.
The people of Cartago have a reputation for being very traditional and conservative. Our volunteers here are complaining, for example, that there are few cafes, and certainly no bars or clubs. According to them, to the young people going off it somehow with the other gender related. This depends certainly also to the fact that Cartago is regarded as a religious center, and this one has a bigger influence than even before in Costa Rica. Many Costa Ricans
lead the relative coldness of the Cartage back on the climate prevailing there. The province is in fact as the coldest known all over the country and you meet here in the cold times of the year, from time to time people with hat and gloves in the street, even though in our view are still a bit exaggerated.
is the only personal relationship with Cartago fact that the family of Carlos' father here has its roots. This includes a few distant relatives are currently at the cemetery.
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