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13th Century Bell Back in the News

December 5, 2010
By hi.di.
13th Century Bell Back in the News

Casco Viejo’s La Merced church has a 788-year-old bell. The church and convent was first erected in what are now the ruins of Panama Viejo but was moved stone by stone to Casco Viejo after pirate Henry Morgan’s devastating 1671 sacking. As part of a restoration effort, Panama’s National Institute of Culture invited Manuel...
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