Cartago, the Oldest Existing Spanish Settlement in Costa Rica

Cartago, the Oldest Existing Spanish Settlement in Costa Rica Cartago sits in the shadows of the mighty Irazu Volcano whose eruption destroyed the city in 1723,   and has become the wrath of several major earthquakes  in 1822, 1841, and again in 1910.  And , in 1963  during the visit of the late President John […]