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La casona played an important role in shaping Costa Rican identity , because of the military political events .
Santa Rosa National Park and Liberia City Tour. The Santa Rosa National Park is the most important monuments in the dry forest of freedom after independence. “La Casona” is where in 1856 the Costa Rican army beat a group of filibusters that tried to conquer the whole central American territory.
In 1890 it is purchased by Sacaza family who demolished the casona and builds a new one
The haciendas in Guanacaste had a garden with crops such as cocoa and sugar cane . Haciendas extracted timber and farmed cattle y dairy products. The battle of Santa Rosa is one of the most important moments of National Campaign . The campaign stemmed from a Civil War between the Liberal and the Conservative parties in Nicaragua from 1854 to 1857 . To win the cause the Democratic Party appealed to William Walker And his mercenaries. Colonel Lorenzo Salazar with 480 men from San José vs 230 filibusters . The battle lasted 14 minutes. 19 filibusters died and 20...
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We were not able to get there the way google maps directed us coming from Playa Grande. I think it was trying to give us a “short-cut” through to rt. 1 instead of having to go up & over thru Liberia. However, this short-cut road was crazy (expected) no cell service (also expected - download an offline map from google) & about an hour on that road it was blocked cause of a huge crater so we turned around & went all the way back to rt 1. Still made it. Get drinks & snacks before cause THERE IS NOTHING at the park for that.
Once you pull in go to the historic site to the left to pay. You definitely don’t want to drive all the way down to the beach to find out you have to go back up to pay. Also - bathrooms are there with staff to help direct you. Cleanest bathrooms ever. The road to the beach is long & takes a while. IIRC 16km & it takes forever cause it’s so rocky but at least you can drive right to the water. It’s about a mile walk to surf by witches...
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Not a nice experience to our latest adventurous mountain bikers from Germany, we did arrived late and no one was at the first entrance, we did realized that the second entrance had the guards ready to leave but they charged us anyway even with the place closed because we did use their 7 km of road. A really bad example of how Costarican organizations are stilling money from tourists. Also the guard Marcos Bustos had a very rude attitude when discussing the charge with a sarcastic smile. Anyway we paid for them since wasn’t their fault. We did continued our adventure to all over Costa Rica having fun and leaving the...
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