Costa Rica is known throughout the world as the garden of peace Less well-kinown is the fact that its museums exhibit some of the best Pre-Columbian gold pieces, outstanding for their quality and originality.

With the arrival of the conquistadors in the New World the term “El Dorado” acted as a magnet to fortune hunters. Many searched in vain, looking for it in the wrong places. Gold worked by Indian craftmen came from Costa Rica, the most humbrle province of the kingdom of Guatemala.

Now SIDESA shares the beauty of these historic treasures, introducing its collection of replicas in precious metals, within reach of today’s buyer. Golden plated 21k.

These replicas represent the most important beliefs of the Indians of Costa Rica prior to Columbus’s discovery of America, The combined mythology of different culture, including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Chibcha, Caribbean, and inca is found harmoniously fused among the tribes of southern Costa Rica: in Sibu, ancestor to all birds of prey, including the eagle and the condor, bird of hawk-beak who few the solus of the dead to heaven; the frog, the crocodile; and the shamon with animal features.

Here is the true El Dorado, source of ambition and death to thousand of conquistadors.