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5 Best Hotels & Restaurants in Santa Ana, Costa Rica

We spent over a month exploring the lodging options in this area and growing fat on all the good food. Here are The Tico Times’ top picks for five good hotels and five good restaurants in a range of prices in the Santa Ana area.

University for Peace brings a global community to Ciudad Colón

The University for Peace in Ciudad Colón, founded by a UN treaty, attracts up to 200 students a year from some 45 countries.

Santa Ana antiques dealer, architect specializes in people

The soul of Santa Ana comes alive when viewed through the blue eyes of Héctor Aguilar — architect, antiques dealer and prolific profiler of town characters.

Santa Ana animal sanctuary comes with sad backstories, better endings

At the Refugio Herpetológico animal sanctuary in Santa Ana, the wards often have heart-breaking histories, but occasionally they are successfully released.

Inside a Costa Rican pottery workshop, spinning wheels churn out the real deal

Feet get dirty and hands get wet on a tour of a Costa Rican pottery factory in Salitral, where some of the country's most beautiful handicrafts are made.
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