The museum occupies the house in which Figueres — remembered as Don Pepe — lived on a farm where he developed many of the ideas that he would put into practice.
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....
An investigation by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) concluded that in Latin America, only Uruguay and Costa Rica ranked in the region’s "full democracies" category, described as when countries respect civil liberties and representative governance.
