COSTA RICA
HOTEL GRAN
[Av.Central-2/calle 3]. It overlooks Square of Culture and Square of Juan Rafael Mora. It`s one of the most known hotels in Costa Rica. Was built in 1930 as the first first class hotel in Costa Rica. There was designed two luxury apartments suitable for diplomats. (There stayed John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter). It`s three-fasaded on rectangular-base with four floors (the highest one separated by outstanding mould). Its roof is short and two-sided. Its fasade stands out for balconies-dummies. In the arcaded first-ground funciones the Paris Restaurant with terrace from which one can observe the street life. On January 2005 it got the title of architectural and historical heritage site.
SAN JOSE
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