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🌍 About panama city

About Panama City, Panama Most capitals make you choose between old and new; Panama City hands you both in one skyline. Casco Viejo — the colonial quarter, UNESCO-listed since 1997 — sits across the bay from a wall of glass towers, so you eat ceviche under crumbling balconies with the financial district glittering behind. Get that ceviche at the Mercado de Mariscos, the seafront fish market: a cup of corvina ceviche costs a couple of dollars and there's no better version in town. And you can actually watch the Canal work — the Miraflores Locks visitor center lets you stand over ships being raised and lowered, which is stranger and more impressive than it sounds. Come December–April for the dry season; May–November means daily afternoon downpours but cheaper fares and fewer people.