Many places (tourist or not) are worth a detour for the beauty of their landscape, the cultural interest or their unique particularity which characterizes them. Some of these places are touristy but others are more confidential and worth visiting. Find all of these places here and share your discoveries with us!
Come admire the old railway locomotive commonly known as the Black Machine. It comes from Germany and was assembled by the Banana Company around the second half of the 20th century. It was part of a group of seven machines identified by a number and this one was number 84. The machine was lit with firewood and then fueled with crude oil. Its function was to transport wagons loaded with bananas to the shipping port of Golfito. This locomotive operated for around twenty years and was abandoned in the early 1980s following the arrival of diesel models. Today, only two remain as souvenirs, near the Parque de las Esferas in Palmar Sur in the canton of Osa and the other in Golfito.
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Architectural cultural heritage of Costa Rica, the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Palmar Sur is worth the detour to admire its typical and charming architecture, one of the rare vestiges of the era and historical memory of Palmar and the Canton. A few hundred meters away, you can also take the opportunity to admire the “maquina Negra”, a former locomotive of the banana company.
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