The Calle de la Amargura ("bitterness street") is a small 200 meters long street located in San Pedro, one of the most populated zones in San Jose, Costa Rica. La Calle, as students often call this place, is near to the University of Costa Rica and other important high learning centers including the Universidad Latina. San José is the capital and largest city of the nation of Costa Rica. ... The University of Costa Rica (in Spanish, Universidad de Costa Rica, abbreviated UCR) is a public university in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America. ... The Universidad Latina (abbreviated ULatina) is a private university located in Costa Rica. ...
La Calle has a lot of small stores and establishments where college students come and buy books, print homeworks, use internet and get photocopies at reasonable prices.
Night Life
There are many bars and discos like Terra U, Tavarua, Caccio's and Mosaikos where students like to hang out mainly every day of the week.
Controversy
La Calle is often referred as a dangerous place by night. Drug smuggling is a very common activity and police officers usually come heavily armed, even though it has become much safer lately.
External Links
It now has a web site: <http://www.calleamargura.com> covers Art, over 5000 Pictures and 250 articles among culture and society in Costa Rica.
La advocación del Buen Viaje, que se encuentra por todo el mundo hispano, viene dela tradición católica española en que al Cristo crucificado se le llama del Buen Viaje porque a él se encomiendan los viajeros.
La iglesia está situada cerca de lo que era la Puerta de Tierra dela muralla habanera, por donde salían los viajeros hacia los caminos llenos de peligro.
La iglesia del Cristo y su plaza acogían a los penitentes con su ambiente íntimo e informal para darles el descanso que tanto deseaban.
De Vargas lived a simple and almost hermit- like life; he was quiet, mild, benevolent, disliked by many of the people of his own rank, but worshipped by the poor, to whom he was extremely generous.
This is the picture generally known as "La Gamba" because of the wonderful foreshortening of the leg of Adam.
The Italian artist Perez de Alesio, when painting (1548) the giant figure of St. Christopher on the southern portal of the cathedral, exclaimed, that the whole of his figure was of less merit than was the leg of Adam in the "Generation" by De Vargas.
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