San Blas of Nicoya Religious Art Museum, Costa Rica

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San Blas of Nicoya Religious Art Museum (Museo de Arte Religioso de San Blas de Nicoya) is an adobe building with religious icons in wood, located at the Colonial Church of San Blas in Nicoya. Here the heavy appearance and volume of the temple, proclaimed to all the Christian fervor, pride of those who planned and built, making it ideal for lovers of religious art.

This property was declared a National Relic in 1923 and in 1995 became, together with its environment, a site of both historical and architectural interest. At the San Blas Religious Art Museum you can find historical relics dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from Spain and Latin America, it has a collection of religious images, pieces of bronze, paintings, and also protects the bells that were used in antiquity to try to get as far as possible the message of invitation to the divine office, to parties and duels.

Address: Colonial Church, next to Nicoya’s Park, district: Nicoya, canton: Nicoya, province: Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Zone postal code: 50201.
GPS coordinates: 10.142881,-85.454131 (10°08’34.37″N, 85°27’14.87″W)
Schedule: From Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Phone: + (506) 2685-5109

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