Casco Viejo History
Panama, Casco Viejo, Casco Antiguo I came across a magazine called Cuasimodo, which was edited back in the early Republic days. This ad was found in a 1919 magazine, I have to say it is one of my favorites. Stores…
Read morePanama, Casco Antiguo, Casco Viejo Last June 2nd, Italy celebrated their anniversary as a Republic. You might not be aware of this, but many of the main buildings in Casco Viejo were designed by Genaro Ruggieri, an Italian who back…
Read moreI was truly impressed by this book by Ida Vallarino. The love that went into it, and the accuracy of its models makes this a great gift for Casco fans or Panama fans. Ida Vallarino worked small models of the…
Read morePanama Casco Viejo, Casco Antiguo I think I might have written about photographer Carlos Endara before. Last week, I participated of a tour to this private museum and ran around like a little kid. I mean, it is so…
Read morePanama Casco Viejo I started writing something for Panama`s patriot holidays (which start tomorrow), but the more I look at my old photos of Casco, the more I`m convinced I should let them do the talking. I have such a…
Read morePanama, Casco Antiguo It is always fun to find photos of early Casco Viejo and try to match it with today`s Casco. This postcard seems to be from the early republic, and the corner of 12th with Santa Ana`s…
Read moreCasco Viejo, Panama, Casco Antiguo I came across a while ago with the Spanish edition of The Economist, which normally gathers news of LatinAmerica (mostly focused on Central America, actually). They ran an entire edition on companies that were…
Read moreCasco Viejo, Panama November is one of those “love `em or hate `em” months in Panama, mainly because we managed (don´t know how, really) to fit all of our patriot holidays in the same month, and as a result nobody…
Read morePanama, Casco Antiguo On Friday we attended the inauguration of Casa de Rosa, a restored building that used to belong to Rosa Eleta de Prieto back in 1921. The apartments are quite spacious, specially the living rooms! Records show that…
Read moreCasco Viejo, Panama Every city has stories hidden under their “cement jungle”. This is the slogan for a History Channel TV Series called “Secret Histories”. A couple of years ago they did an entire episode about Panama, which covers…
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