Parque Central Review

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Parque Central

  • Address: Center of Sarchí, Sarchí

Fodor's Review:

Sarchí's Parque Central resembles the central park of any other Costa Rican small town—a fairly non-descript church fronts the open space and it serves as a gathering place for townspeople to talk and gossip—but it is home to the world's largest oxcart, constructed and brightly painted by longtime local factory Eloy Alfaro e Hijos, installed in 2006, and enshrined in the Guinness Book of World Records. The work logs in at 18 meters (45 feet) and weighs two 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 any time soon.

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