Historia y vicisitudes de un cabildo
Subtitle: del primer cabildo de tierra firme al palacio municipal republicano
By: Samuel A. Gutiérrez.
Publisher: Academia Panameña de la Historia
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Panamá
Language: spa
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Public buildings -- Panama -- History.; Public buildings -- South America -- History.; Architecture, Colonial -- Panama.; Architecture, Colonial -- South America.; Panama -- History -- To 1903.
Description: "Brief study of the establishment of city and town councils in the New World, the earliest being in Panamá in 1503. Also contains an analysis of the neoclassical Municipal Palace and a short description of parallels between the town council of Panamá and those of the Rio de la Plata region. Contains some historical photographs, engravings, and plans"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-48).
"Ponencia, Tercer Congreso de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Academias de Historia, 'El municipio en Iberoamérica', Montevideo, Uruguay, 25 al 29 de octubre de 1993."