By Lou Kritz
When visiting San Ramón, Costa Rica, you realize that each town and village has a personality and feel that makes it special. In San Ramón, it’s history and location. The 12,000 people who live here will tell you that this was one of the first incorporated communities, dating to its founding in 1856.
The town is known for the leaders of Costa Rican society that have local ties. National poets, Felix Angel Salas Cabezas and Lisimaco Chavarria Palma wrote, studied, and taught here. Two significant presidents that affected Costa Rican principles also call this home. Rodrigo Carazo and José Figueres Ferrer, mid-19th century officeholders, set a new course of human relations and international respect for the county.