Free Tour Downtown/Old City

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  XF28+X4M Plaza De La Independencia, C...

  XF28+X4M Plaza De La Independencia, C. 6a Este, Panamá, Provincia de Panamá, Panamá

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  Independence Square or Plaza Mayor in spanish

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  Independence Square or Plaza Mayor (spanish)

  Meeting point, in the heart of the Old City, going to be there wearing a Kakhi short an a red polo shirt, you can get there in a Uber usually is a 15 to 20 minutes drive from downtown.

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  Iglesia de La Merced

  Now we are inside the Old City, La Merced Church was the only one who survives the attack of the pirates on the original Panama city because they use the church as their refuge after burning out the entire city, was moved stone by stone from the original site.

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  Iglesia de San José

  San Jose Church rebuilted in 1675 and his golden altar from the original city destroyed during the attack of Morgan many legends of how the spanish hide the golden Altar from them, and reinstall it on the new church.

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  Plaza Tomás Herrera

  Plaza Herrera did not exist during the spanish colony it was a block of houses and buildings destruyed by the fire of 1871, then became, Plaza del Triunfo, a place for popular festivals, and finally renamed Plaza Herrera honoring General Thomas Herrera who participaces in the emancipation of south America countries.

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  Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús

  When the old city moved the congregation operated a school with primary school and Latin Class by 1749 the order had built a large part of their headquartes then called The Royal Pontificical University of San Javier the first on the isthmus unfortunately it only operates until 1767 when the Jesuits were expelled from Panama City by order of Charles II few years later a fire destroy the building and now is La Compañía 5 Star hotel

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  Arco Chato

  Santo Domingo Convent was one of the first to be built on the new Panama City in 1678 also destroyed by two fires in 17 century the walls and the arches remained standin with special menction to the lowered arch of arco chato in spanish, this arch served to demostrate the seismic stability of Panama during the negotiation of Panama Canal

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  Plaza De La Independencia

  This square has 3 different names Plaza Mayor, Plaza Cathedral or Independence Square, is the main square of the Old city Town Hall and the Cathedrall were built around it

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  Plaza de Francia

  This was a military fort during the colony then a prisionand in 1912 was ordered to built a monument honoring the french people were here in Panama for the first attemp of construction of the Panama Canal, the very best wiew of the city from there

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  Paseo Esteban Huertas

  in XIX century a wall trench was built to over the vaults of the old fort, named later Esteban Huertas walkway, a Colombian General who plays and important roll during the separation betwen Panama and Colombia

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  Plaza Simón Bolívar

  This was another block of houses destroyed by a fire and empty lot for many years named Simon Bolivar square to honor the libertor of american countries in 1926 for the 100 houndred anyversary of the Amphictionic Congress it is made out of bronce and granite stone brougth from the Andes Mountain Range.

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  Catedral Basílica Metropolitana Santa María La Antigua

  The Original Cathedral was destroyed during the attack of Morgan, when the spanish relocate the city in the Ancon Site they built one made of wood in 1674, and in 1688 start the construction of the actual cathedral it took 108 years to get it done in 1796 they finish it and suffer many changes througth the years that will tell you.