The Town
David centres on Parque Cervantes , a good place to relax with a freshly squeezed sugar-cane juice and get your shoes shined in the shade of its immense trees. Three blocks southeast of the parque down C A Nte on the corner with Av 8 Este, the Museo de Historia y Arte Jose de Obaldia (Tues-Sat 8.30am-4.30pm; US$1) has a small but intriguing collection focusing on local history and culture, ranging from pre-Columbian artefacts and colonial religious art to relics from the Coto War with Costa Rica and photographs of David in the early twentieth century. The building is a beautiful colonial mansion that was home to successive generations of the distinguished Obaldia family - Jose was the founder of the province of Chiriqui, and later generations included presidents of both Colombia and Panama.
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