Culture Ministry

Several Costa Rican institutions are offering cultural activities during Semana Santa (Easter Holy Week). 

Costa Rica has prepared a series of cultural tourism guides to promote travel during the upcoming Easter Holy Week (Semana Santa). 

Costa Rica’s 2021 budget cuts come in context of a growing economic crisis resulting, in part, from the coronavirus pandemic. 

Lanterns have become a traditional decoration to mark the Independence Day events.

A look at highlights of the upcoming National Arts Festival in the Southern Zone.

A fire Friday consumed most of the historic Black Star Line building in Costa Rica's Caribbean port city of Limón. The building was architectural heritage.

A look at the winners of Costa Rica's National Culture Awards - from novelists to documentarians to choreographers.

Sylvie Durán Salvatierra officially took over as culture and youth minister on Tuesday, while the ministry's Film Center Director Max Valverde Soto was appointed vice minister.

Costa Rica’s Culture Ministry in a press release confirmed the definitive cancellation of all concerts suspended during the failed edition of this year’s International Arts Festival (FIA 2015).

In testimony Thursday before a Legislative Assembly commission, Costa Rica's former Culture Minister Elizabeth Fonseca downplayed the colossal failure of this year's International Arts Festival, or FIA, saying, "this whole situation has been exaggerated; the gravity of what happened was blown out of proportion.”