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Decision 21 COM VIII.C
Inscription: Historic District of the Town of Panama with the Salon Bolivar (Panama)

Historic District of the Town of Panama with the Salon Bolivar

790

Panama

C(ii)(iv)(vi)

The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the basis of cultural criteria (ii), (iv) and (vi), considering that Panamá was the first European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas, in 1519, and the Historic District preserves intact a street pattern, together with a substantial number of early domestic buildings, which are exceptional testimony to the nature of this early settlement. The Salón Bolivar is of outstanding historical importance, as the venue for Simón Bolivar's visionary attempt in 1826 to create a Pan-American congress, more than a century before such institutions became a reality.

The Delegate of Thailand expressed his reservations on the application of criterion (vi).

Decision Code
21 COM VIII.C
Themes
Inscriptions on the World Heritage List
States Parties 1
Year
1997
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