Panama and the canal . How Strangely Narrow Its Streets Are ! The Plaza INDErEXDENCE TLAZA Si the band concerts or to promenade beneath the Hghts andpahii trees. For more than two hundred years this Plazahas witnessed some of the most important events in thehistory of Panama. If the City of Panama is the capital ofthe Republic, this small stjuare is its very lieart. There areother old churches and other parks in the city, but noneCjuite so interestinij;as these. Xot all the town,however, is as at-tractive as Independ-ence Plaza. ]\Iuchfilth, many vilequarters, evil-smell-ing and unhealth-ful s
Panama and the canal . How Strangely Narrow Its Streets Are ! The Plaza INDErEXDENCE TLAZA Si the band concerts or to promenade beneath the Hghts andpahii trees. For more than two hundred years this Plazahas witnessed some of the most important events in thehistory of Panama. If the City of Panama is the capital ofthe Republic, this small stjuare is its very lieart. There areother old churches and other parks in the city, but noneCjuite so interestinij;as these. Xot all the town,however, is as at-tractive as Independ-ence Plaza. ]\Iuchfilth, many vilequarters, evil-smell-ing and unhealth-ful streets, revealthe usual conditionsthat are all t<jocommon in tropicalcities. Yet ourgeneral feeling, as^\• e examine t h etown, will not bewholly unpleasant. From the Cathedral Plaza it is only a short walk to theharbor. A stroU out on the old sea-wall is full of noveltyand interest. This is the very same wall which the Spaniards. ,; by Urn. H. R,ih. Calle Bolivae, One of the Better Streets ofPanama City. THE OLD CATHEDRAL
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