Alberto Font

The National Theater in San José inaugurated its traditional Nativity Scene on Tuesday evening before a large audience of curious Ticos.

Some 100 people joined in a march against climate change in San José, a day before international climate talks start in Paris. "We want serious decisions and and real compromise to stop the planet's temperature rise," said conservationist Jorge Mora Portuguez.

In an old house filled with all types of wood, carpentry machines and books, lives a couple of talented artisans who have dedicated most of their lives to creating and restoring different objects made of wood, glass and metal.

The 2015 Choreographers Festival kicked off Thursday in Costa Rica with the presentation of four pieces. The festival continues through Sunday at the National Theater in San José.

As the sun rises over the stunning Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica’s southern Pacific, the waters of Golfo Dulce come alive with the graceful...

San José celebrated Costa Rica's Independence Day with a traditional parade along Avenida Segunda that – as usually is the case – was full of music and color, with hundreds of students from different schools marching.

Costa Rica’s Independence Day, celebrated on September 15, is a significant national holiday commemorating the country’s peaceful transition to independence from Spain in 1821....

Students from the Franklin Roosevelt school in San Pedro, Montes de Oca, celebrate Children's Day with carnival rides in the plaza in front of...

Each Saturday for five straight months, Guatemalans gathered in the capital's Plaza de la Constitución to demand the resignation of then-President Otto Pérez Molina, accused of being the mastermind behind a massive customs fraud mafia known as "La Línea." Citizens of all stripes across Guatemala joined in the demonstrations in their own cities and villages. Here's a look at that dramatic, tenacious and peaceful protest movement that since April has been inspiring the world.

Located in San Rafael de Alajuela, La Reforma prison is the biggest in Costa Rica. The Tico Times recently visited the prison and took portraits of some of the inmates.