Fabrica de Carretas Eloy Alfaro | Tourist Attraction
Costa Rica
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- Verified:
- almost 2 years ago
- GPS:
- 10.09215, -84.34682
- Altitude:
- 989.0 masl
- Contributor:
-
Lucas_Meets_World
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This is the factory where the oxen carts have been built for 99 years.
Sarchí is Costa Rica's most famous crafts center. The town offers more than 200 stores and small family-operated woodworking factories producing wooden bowls and other tableware, fold-up rocking chairs of wood and leather, and a wide variety of kitschy items. The most popular items on sale are "carretas", elaborately painted oxcarts that traditionally carried coffee from the highlands down to the port on the Pacific coast.
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This is the factory where the oxen carts have been built for 99 years.
Sarchí is Costa Rica's most famous crafts center. The town offers more than 200 stores and small family-operated woodworking factories producing wooden bowls and other tableware, fold-up rocking chairs of wood and leather, and a wide variety of kitschy items. The most popular items on sale are "carretas", elaborately painted oxcarts that traditionally carried coffee from the highlands down to the port on the Pacific coast.
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