Somewhere on the eastern edge of the Zapote District of the San Jose canton, right past the ring highway, and a few blocks down from the somewhat fashionable Multiplaza Curridabat, but surrounded by much less fashionable buildings (including a muffler shop, a Repuesto Coreano (Korean speciality autoshop), a lottery post, a motorcycle parts store, an auto parts store, another auto parts store...okay, you get the point), is a nondescript office building that looks like... well, I think I just said it was nondescript, right? It looks like a building on a community college campus, or maybe the central office building for a local electrical utility. A big old boring hunk of brutalist concrete just sitting there on a road filled with other businesses.
But what is it? Well, as a reader, you have already had this spoiled for you: this is the Presidential Palace of Costa Rica. Although the name may be a misnomer, because the president does not live in this building. This is an office
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