The San Lorenzo has stories of battles for treasures between Spanish and English, of the taken by force by pirate Francis Drake, who was later repelled by the Spanish, said the director of the Public Enterprises of the Autonomous Region of Extremadura, while remembering part of the history kept intact within the structures of this magical and mythical place.

According to Ruiz Pena, each corner of San Lorenzo is a piece of history, since this

stones speak of times of glory and defeat, at the same time he stated feeling at Fort San Lorenzo absolutely welcomed by the ancient walls which probably contain “magic, history, and enchantment”, says Ruiz.

The director of the Public Enterprises of Extremadura was part of the expedition led by the Duke of Veragua, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal, president of the Castilla del Oro Foundation in Spain and its Panamanian counterpart, chaired by Dr. Pascual Montanes, who, led by Panamanian entrepreneur Richard Fifer-Carles, seek to boost the rural tourism development in the central provinces of the country.

The Duke of Veragua Cristobal Colon of Carvajal

said that the main branch of the direct descendants of the admiral Cristobal Colon are in Spain and seen his death they perfectly reachable since there are published books and authentic documents about the descendants.

Colon of Carvajal, president of the Castilla del Oro Foundation, led by the businessman Richard Fifer Carles during his visit too panama too promote the activities

of this foundation that is looking to promote the rural tourism in the country, said that he is the tenth descendant of Cristobal Colon and that the descendants of the admiral since his death are perfectly registered and that there are published books about the descendants of Colon.

He pointed out that within the immense tree that is spread out trough different country of America, Spain maintains the main branch and that the descendant of that main branch is the most direct one of each generation and that take the title of Duke of Vergua, also known as Admiral of India or discoverers of America, Marques of Jamaica and Duke of la Vieja.

The objective of the Foundation Castilla del Oro, organization created by the engineer Richard Fifer- Carles, is to promote the development of tourism in the rural communities of the central provinces of Panama, so they have a development that so far has been reduced to agriculture and livestock, many of subsistence.

So explained the international president of the Foundation Castilla del Oro, the Duke of Veragua, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal; who said that this organization was created thinking of the tourist development, as a mean to boost the level of life of the inhabitants of the rural communities in the Provinces of Colon, Colce, Herrera, Los Santos and Veraguas.

“We are talking about

a tourist project and strategically coordinated. We intend to launch an entire plan based in the tourism which would generate jobs, attracting tourist, to impulse the developments that it’s promoted”, said the Duke of Veraguas, who added that to makes this vision a reality, they have already located several spots of tourist interest with the end to enhance its appeal.

Forestal engineer Enrique Meléndez in charge of the Petaquilla Gold. S.A. company soil revegetacion project, informed that this program, that consists in the recovery of explored areas with

the sowing of native forestal species, endemics and leguminous, like beans have provided positive results.

As proof of that the engineer Meléndez indicated that the leguminous are used in the dining room to feed the employees, as a certifying proof that the soils are not contaminated.

Meléndez informed that this innovative program is part of the company’s policy that leads the 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.