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Heritage tag of Panama’s Casco Viejo under threat

Thursday, July 13, 2017


The future of Panama City’s historic center, the Casco Viejo, as a designated World Heritage site could again be falling through cracks, warns the body that awards the much-valued designation.

Lack of planning means that conservation  proposals and initiatives both public and private in Panama’s old city are not having any noticeable effects on the site, said a committee report to Unesco at its 41st session in Krakow, Poland, last week.

Source: Newsroom Pamama