Shopping Centre sights in Colón
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Zona Libre
Colón's free-trade zone is a huge fortress-like area of giant international stores selling items duty free. In fact, it's the world's second-largest duty-free port after Hong Kong. However, most of these stores only deal in bulk merchandise; they aren't set up to sell to individual tourists and the window-shopping is not very interesting.
If you do buy something, the store usually sends it to the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, where you can retrieve your purchase before departing the country. You can enter the Zona Libre by presenting your passport at the security office.
In 1948, the Zona Libre was created on the edge of Colón in an attempt to revive the c…
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