Plaza Herrera
Colonial-era park built on a razed bullring, centered on a bronze equestrian monument to a nineteenth-century general.
This guide to Plaza Herrera in Panama City starts on the sand of a colonial-era bullring, built in eighteen eighty-seven by the promoter Manuel Diaz on a block left vacant since a fire tore through the San Jose neighborhood a century earlier. It follows the wooden plaza de toros through its brief run of December bullfights before Panama's young republic pushed the sport out of the old town, and the bronze equestrian statue of General Tomas Herrera that took its place, cast in France and unveiled in nineteen twenty-eight. Herrera himself fought at the Battle of Ayacucho and led Panama's first short-lived bid for independence from Colombia.
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