Abstract
A great part of the symbolic power in the religious culture consists, like in Palmares. in their insertion on tbe daily popular. The improvement on the quality of life of tbe second half of tbe century costarrican, the struggle against comunism and protesantism and tbe strong search for the spiritual, limit the participation when, ít closes comunal spaces of traditional contact and entertairment. Today, these spaces are intended to be recovered in different localities around the country.