Sofitel recently opened the doors to its newest historical luxury hotel, the Sofitel Legend Casco Viejo in Panama City, smack dab in the capital’s old city and a short distance from the Panama Canal.

Officially open since January 2023, the Sofitel Legend Casco Viejo was designed to blend Panamanian culture with Sofitel’s signature French “savoir-faire” spirit. The mixture of French and Panamanian is especially kismet in this instance—not only given the hotel’s walking distance proximity to the French Embassy in Panama’s Old City, but also given France’s role in the history of the Panama Canal, less than an hour drive from the hotel.

Inside Sofitel’s newest historic hotel in Panama | Fortune