To the town of Parita, in the Herrera province, traveled the international president of the Castilla del Oro Foundation, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal, where he was able to admire Panamanian open country as well as enjoying the typical artistic expressions and receiving a recognition from the local authorities.

Located in the Herrera province, Parita is a town with a rich cultural legacy, which has survived over the years and seems to have been frozen in time, which is of great appeal for the tourists.

The visit of the Duke of Veragua to Parita was part of the tour through several towns of the interior of the country, organized by the Castilla del Oro Foundation, who under the direction of Eng. Richard Fifer Carles, boosts tourism projects in the rural communities.

Through traditional and indigenous dances, Colon de Carvajal was able to appreciate in Parita, the rich cultural diversity of the country, expressed in the dances.

The Duke Cristóbal Colon of Carvajal, said the exposition of historical documents in the relationship of Spain with Panama is unique because it has gathered the main documents that affect the historical relationship between both historical countries of Spain and Panama and it’s an opportunity that has had a good, and they have taken a good advantage of since they are well kept and preserved.

This way it was presented by the President of the Castilla del Oro Foundation of Spain, Colon de Carvajal, during his visit thru the country when he toured thru the provinces that form part of what was known as La Castilla del Oro durin the Colonial period, too promote the activities of the foundation that is looking to develop the rural tourism in Panama, and idea originally created by the Panamanian businessman Richard Fifer- Carles.

The Petaquilla Gold, S.A. company that leads the impresario Richard Fifer- Carles as part of the process to apply new technologies in the project developed in the  Donoso district, Colon province, has put into practice, applying innovative techniques, the recovery and soil revegetation programs that have been explored.

It is about the sowing of leguminous, endemic and native species likeThe Bateo, The Pérez Montaña, Pegle and Guabo, among others.

In the same way, the project contemplates the sowing of leguminous like beans that have the particularity of fixing nitrogens in the soils and besides, the agricultural-foresting technique that consists in the mixture of forestal plantations with agricultural plantations is applied.

Meléndez informed that his innovative program is part of the company’s policy led by impresario Richard Fifer- Carles and the commitment acquired with the Panamanian State to revegetate more than double the hectares that are explored by the mining project.

A request was informally made by the Historical Heritage Department of the National Culture Institute (INAC) to Castilla del Oro Foundation to support the recovery of the tile roof of the San Francisco de la Montana’s church, located in the district of the same name, in the province of Veraguas.

The request came during a meeting held by the Castilla del Oro Foundation, led by entrepreneur Richard Fifer Carles, and the Panamanian Tourism Authority to understand, analyze and make recommendations on the implementation progress of the recovery of this country’s historical heritage.

The request was made by the deputy director of Historical Heritage, Yamileth Stanziola, who said that, as part of its legal powers, the entity has the obligation to protect and guard all the monuments, but by law each owner of a monument considered to have patrimonial value is responsible for its maintenance.

She said that currently this relic’s roof has suffered some damage due to the constant flow of vehicles nearby, which has caused some tiles to break and being replaced, and that the carpeting mounted on the roof has had some degree of filtering that may be affecting the altars which are historical monuments and since the Castilla del Oro Foundation has expressed interest in the country’s heritage values, they have taken the opportunity to respectfully ask them to work on repairing the roof.