San Jose City Tour. Premium Experience with Lunch

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About this activity

Enjoy a beautiful day with our exclusive and 100% private tour. Our professional naturalist tour guide and deluxe transportation will pick you up directly from your hotel in San Jose.

Our tour combines a vehicle tour of the city and short walks through the main streets of the capital to have direct contact with the main attractions.

Our tour includes entry to the National Museum, one of the most important historical sites in Costa Rica. Here, our guide will take you on a tour of our history, from pre-Columbian times to the present.

We will also visit the beautiful National Theater, Congress, the Post Office, the market area and main residential areas.

Our tour includes a typical lunch with the main ingredients of Costa Rican cuisine.

Our tour is the most complete. It is a 7-hour tour where you can truly get to know and appreciate our capital city.

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At a glance

Duration: 5 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: English, Spanish
Operated by: Greenway Nature Day Tours

Ages: Infants (0–3 years) · Children (4–12 years) · Adults (13–80 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Professional tour guide just for you
Included: Sightseeing by the most Iconic sites of San Jose City
Included: 100% private deluxe transportation
Included: Delicious Typical lunch in a nice restaurant
Included: Entrance fee to National Museum

Not included

Not included: Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
Not included: Tip for the tour guide

Itinerary

Teatro Nacional Costa Rica

15 min Admission not included

The most beautiful building in Costa Rica. Our Opera House was build between 1890 and 1897 as a cultural center and special celebrations for the high society of that time. Because it is a theater with constant activities, it is often closed for tours inside, so the visit is subject to the day of your tour being open. In case the entrance is not allowed, a visit to the National Museum will be made instead of the visit to the theater
Pre-Columbian Gold Museum

Passing by

The Pre-Columbian Gold Museum is a museum in San José, Costa Rica. It is located in a subterranean building underneath the "Plaza de la Cultura" and is owned and curated by the Banco Central de Costa Rica.

The Museums of the Central Bank of Costa Rica manage, preserve, research and outreach the Archaeology, Visual Arts, and Numismatics collections of the Central Bank of Costa Rica. They offer their visitors permanent exhibitions and a dynamic program of temporary exhibits that are related to their heritage. They are housed in an extraordinary building located in the heart of San José.
San Jose

one hour

San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is located in the centre of the country, specifically in the mid-west of the Central Valley, and contained within San José Canton.
Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Joseph of Costa Rica

Passing by

In 1813, the Spanish Courts gave San José the title of city and, as such, required a temple that would honor the Catholic faith. This was the reason why it was decided to build the current metropolitan cathedral. The construction of this first temple began in 1825 under the supervision of Eusebio Rodríguez, who had designed a longer and wider temple with masonry walls. The church was inaugurated in 1827 and received the title of cathedral in 1850, when Monsignor Anselmo Llorente y La Fuente was appointed the first bishop of Costa Rica.
Amantes del Parque Metropolitano La Sabana

Passing by

La Sabana Metropolitan Park is located in downtown San José, Costa Rica. It is the country's largest and most significant urban park. La Sabana is considered "the lungs of San José" by Costa Ricans.

Covering an area of 0.72 square kilometres (0.28 sq mi), La Sabana Metropolitan Park is adjacent to the city's core districts, offering green space and recreation to the residents of San José.

Several important institutions and organizations are located within or adjacent to the park.

La Sabana Metropolitan Park was officially inaugurated in 1977, though its origins go back two centuries. Manuel Antonio Chapuí, the parish priest of San José at the end of the 17th century, donated several plots of land in the Mata Redonda District "in order to favour Costa Rica's interests". Since that time, the area has been used for recreation and sports activities.
Mercado Municipal De Artesanias

one hour

Enjoy shopping and haggling for thousands of beautiful handicrafts at the San Jose Municipal Handicraft Market, a veritable maze of aisles packed with colorful souvenirs to take home.

All products offered are handcrafted by true Costa Rican artists. Here you can find a wide variety of jewelry, Wood carvings, t-shirts, hammocks, coffee and spices, bookmarks, butterflies in frames, sloth bears and thousands of other objects.
Museo Nacional De Costa Rica

1 h 30 min Admission included

The National Museum of Costa Rica invites you to learn about the cultural and natural history of Costa Ricans, from pre-Columbian times to the present.

Its exhibition rooms show the varied collections in the fields of national history, archeology and natural history, which for 135 years has been the oldest in the country. It carries out temporary exhibitions on artistic and cultural themes and has a varied agenda of activities throughout the year.

The Museum is located in an emblematic building, declared Historical Architectural Heritage and a symbol of the abolition of the army in Costa Rica.

In case the National Theater is closed, it will be replaced by the National Museum