Culture as an element of development
When we speak of World Heritage, we speak principally of culture, or rather of many cultures. The State of Panama, which counts 5 World Heritage sites, believes that culture can be an important support for economic development, both as a tourist draw and as a support for its internal productivity and services. Still, particularly in Panama City, cultural heritage coexists with many contradictions, which can be addressed with technology, but which above all require ethical and social solutions. Culture offers points of encounter and opportunity to communicate better, and is thus a vehicle for peace. It is precisely under this aspect that Panama intends to play its role, through methods of conserving Cultural Heritage that still offer space for innovative proposals, in the spirit of an Urban Historic Landscape that also permits necessary modern public and private works, together with actual heritage conservation.