Books of the Patrimony Center have become available on the Internet

The investigations that are published yearly the Patrimony Center of the Culture Department are already within reach of web surfers in the site: www.educatico.ed.cr 

This entry is from the Public Education Department, but thanks to an alliance with the Culture Department the section "Costa Rican Culture" offers digital versions of the different investigations on folklore, traditions, gastronomy, festivities, architecture and history that are developed each year the specialists of the Patrimony Center. 

Up to now there’s available seven documents in the website published in years prior 2009, among them Adobe Houses, elaborated by the investigators Elena Troyo and Fernando González; La jícara of Giselle Chang and Fernando González, and Ceramist Communities of Carlos Zamora and Fernando González. 

Six publications will be added gradually which have been published in 2009 by the Patrimony Center.  Of these new investigations there’s already online the National Tourism Circuit Collection, a series of tourist guides that offer comprehensive maps and information on the architectural milestones and the places of greater hereditary value of the provinces of Costa Rica.

In the next few weeks the remainder of the publications will be available online.  Some of these articles will be La Sabana: a park with history, General Cemetery of San José, The ornamentation of carretas in Costa Rica: origins and tendencies and historic Synthesis of the architectural structures of the old National Factory of Liquors.