COSTA RICA
BARRIO AMON IN SAN JOSE
The oldest San Jose quarter, full of historic houses (in the past belonged to coffee barons), that often are converted into hotels. To the north it`s limited by Torres river and 13th avenida, to the south by 7th avenida, to the east by 9th street and to the west by the Central Street. That was designed at the end of XIX century by Amon Fasileau Duplantier-a brother-in-law of Hipolit Tournon (a representative of Tournon firm, that derived profits from coffee cultivating). In 1892 Amon suggested that municipal authorities should build the new quarter in San Jose. In January 1894 the contract was entered. Soon to a new quarter the richest inhabitants started to settle, and they were building very elegant houses in different styles (victorian, eclectical, neoclassic and modern). The Association for Quarter Development made the bus traffic in the quarter was moved out.
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