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Parque Central
Parque Central Review
Sarchí's Parque Central resembles the central park of any other Costa Rican small town—the facade of its church is frequently compared to a wedding cake—but the park's real attraction is the world's largest oxcart, constructed and brightly painted by longtime local factory Taller Eloy Alfaro e Hijos and enshrined in the Guinness Book of World Records. The work logs in at 18 meters (45 feet) and weighs 2 tons. Since no other country is attached to oxcarts quite the way Costa Rica is, we don't look for that record to be broken anytime soon.
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