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Now where in Panama City might one find a statue of Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome who were said to have been raised by a she-wolf? On Paitilla's Via Italia, of course, alongside the Nunciatura, which is the Roman Catholic Church's embassy to the Panamanian government.

In the 1980s the Nunciatura was a busy place, first with opposition figures seeking refuge from the Noriega dictatorship there, and in the end with Manuel Antonio Noriega taking temporary shelter there in the wake of the December 1989 invasion. Lately we haven't seen the Holy See's embassy here in the news headlines, but Panama is still a mainly Catholic country and the church does make its opinions heard both in the government and in society.

This country has long had a small Italian community, which has left a much larger cultural mark. If you visit the ruins of Panama Viejo or Fort San Lorenzo, for example, you will see the remains of structures that were designed by 16th and 17th century Italian architects.






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