National Theatre

As part of the old tentative list of Costa Rica, this is a monument-based approach to heritage. But in this case, while it may not have OUV for itself, as an institution lies in the heart of national identity, in the same way that it is located next to the Culture square, the heart of activity in downtown San Jose, and an area that improved after the square (with a subterranean building for museums underneath) and the boulevard in central avenue were built. As a building, it is one of the most important landmarks in San Jose, and a must-visit place, and represents the neo-classical movement in architecture. Built between 1890 and 1897, from taxes imposed on the coffee growers after the old theater was destroyed by an earthquake, and the lack of such venues in San Jose prevented quality activities to come to the country, it was seen as a national enterprise of the highest importance.

As the National Monument and buildings of the time, it represented the ideological interests of the liberal governments of the 2nd half of the 19th century to "civilise" the populace through the promotion of inmigration and adoption of european culture, the integration of the country in the global economy of the time through trade and the building of infrastructure.

It exists in Costa Rica the idea that the theater was a copy of the Opera in Paris, but this is not the case as the only similarity comes from the programatic similarities that …