Every year, an estimated two million people from across Central America leave their homes and walk to the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles in...
This weekend pilgrims from across Costa Rica will begin walking – if they haven't already – to the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles for an annual pilgrimage of faith known as the romería, where they will pay their respects to and ask for favors from the country’s patron saint, the Virgin of Los Ángeles.
Every year, an estimated 2 million people from across Central America leave their homes and begin walking to the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles in Cartago, east of the capital, to pay their respects to Costa Rica's patron saint, known locally as La Negrita.
On Friday and Saturday, thousands of Catholics will converge on the Basilica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles in Cartago for Costa Rica's annual pilgrimage, the...
“The subject of my faith as a believer is mine, with my Lord,” President Luis Guillermo Solís said, who never participated in the romería as a citizen and says he won't start now.
Costa Rica is home to hundreds of animal species that surprise locals and foreigners alike. Recently, an especially unusual sighting occurred in Bajo La...
Decades after the Latin American literature "boom," which made magical realism the region's distinctive hallmark, several of its most notable books are gaining new...
