ENGAbout Us
(See our business registration )
Your hosts at Boquete Apartments are an international couple: Volker Piasta of German nationality and María del Carmen Santamaría, a native Panamanian.
We both bring relevant experience to our new venture and hope to make your stay
in our Boquete apartments enjoyable.
Volker
was born in Germany and grew up in Berlin, where he studied Electrical Engineering
at the TUB and worked as a development engineer.
At age 40, he decided to move to the beautiful Tuscan hills in Italy, where he
bought an abandoned farm, started to produce excellent olive oil and transformed
the medieval farmhouse into a flourishing agriturismo guesthouse. After
more than 20 years in Tuscany, he decided to restart again, went to Boquete
in Panama to study Spanish, and fell in love, first with the place and then
with Maria. So he decided to settle here and start a new family. He speaks
German and quite fluently Spanish and English, and still remembers some Italian
and some of the French he had learned at school.
Maria
was born in Boquete into a family of 10 brothers and sisters. She has always
strived to learn and study alongside her work. As the (now retired) secretary of the local
catholic parish, her daily life has been and is all about organizing, counseling, helping, and communicating. She pursues these activities also outside her job as an
active member of the International Lions Club in Boquete. In her spare
time, she is a very talented artisan who paints and creates sculptures, mainly
with a folkloristic background. Her art decorates our house and the apartments
and is also for sale. She is a great gardening lover, with a special interest
in orchids.
Maria speaks Spanish, and some English and has basic knowledge of German, always eager
to learn more.
