Cartago Ruins

These church 100-year-old church ruins draw tourists to the city of Cartago, about 24 kilometers southeast of the Capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Before construction was finished, church was destroyed in the 1910 earthquake. This is where, last Friday, president Arias, news crews and hundreds of residents gathered to participate in pre-Independence Day festivities. That included the torch bearer lighting the cauldron at the main steps of these ruins.

— Christopher