MAGELLAN'S CROSS
The Magellan's Cross is a symbol
of Cebu City and the chapel's image can be found in its city seal. It is
also seen as the symbol of Roman Catholicism and a tourist attraction
in the Philippines.
The Magellan's Cross is a Christian cross planted by Portuguese and Spanish explorers as ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521. This cross is housed in a small chapel next to the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño on Magallanes Street (Magallanes being the Spanish name of Magellan), just in front of the city hall of Cebu City. A sign below the cross claims that the original cross is encased inside the wooden cross that is found in the center of this chapel. This is to protect the original cross from people who chipped away parts of the cross for souvenir purposes or in the belief that the cross possesses miraculous powers.
Some people, however, believe that the original cross had been destroyed or had disappeared after Magellan's death, and the cross is a replica that was planted there by the Spaniards after they successfully colonized the Philippines.
The Magellan's Cross is a Christian cross planted by Portuguese and Spanish explorers as ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521. This cross is housed in a small chapel next to the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño on Magallanes Street (Magallanes being the Spanish name of Magellan), just in front of the city hall of Cebu City. A sign below the cross claims that the original cross is encased inside the wooden cross that is found in the center of this chapel. This is to protect the original cross from people who chipped away parts of the cross for souvenir purposes or in the belief that the cross possesses miraculous powers.
Some people, however, believe that the original cross had been destroyed or had disappeared after Magellan's death, and the cross is a replica that was planted there by the Spaniards after they successfully colonized the Philippines.
FORT SAN PEDRO
Fort San Pedro / Fuerza de San Pedro
is a military defence structure, built by Spanish and indigenous
Cebuano labourers under the command of Spanish conquistador, Miguel
López de Legazpi and the Spanish Government in Cebu. It is located in
the area now called Plaza Indepedencia, in the Pier Area of Cebu City,
Philippines.
The smallest, oldest triangular bastion fort in the country was built in 1738 to repel Muslim raiders. In turn, it served as a stronghold for Filipino revolutionaries near the end of the 19'th Century. This served as the nucleus of the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Fort San Pedro is triangular in shape, with two sides facing the sea and the third side fronting the land. The two sides facing the sea were defended with artillery and the front with a strong palisade made of wood. The three bastions were named La Concepcion (SW); Ignacio de Loyola (SE), and San Miguel (NE). It has a total inside area of 2,025 sq. Meters. The walls are 20 feet (6.1 m) high, 8 feet (2.4 m) thick and the towers are 30 feet (9.1 m) high from the ground level. The circumference is 1,248 feet (380 m). The sides are of unequal lengths and the one fronting the city is where one may find entry into the Fort. Fourteen cannons were mounted in their emplacements most of which are still there today. Work first started on May 8, 1565 with Miguel Lopéz de Legazpi breaking ground.
The smallest, oldest triangular bastion fort in the country was built in 1738 to repel Muslim raiders. In turn, it served as a stronghold for Filipino revolutionaries near the end of the 19'th Century. This served as the nucleus of the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Fort San Pedro is triangular in shape, with two sides facing the sea and the third side fronting the land. The two sides facing the sea were defended with artillery and the front with a strong palisade made of wood. The three bastions were named La Concepcion (SW); Ignacio de Loyola (SE), and San Miguel (NE). It has a total inside area of 2,025 sq. Meters. The walls are 20 feet (6.1 m) high, 8 feet (2.4 m) thick and the towers are 30 feet (9.1 m) high from the ground level. The circumference is 1,248 feet (380 m). The sides are of unequal lengths and the one fronting the city is where one may find entry into the Fort. Fourteen cannons were mounted in their emplacements most of which are still there today. Work first started on May 8, 1565 with Miguel Lopéz de Legazpi breaking ground.
BASILICA DEL STO. NIÑO
The Minor Basilica of the Holy Child (Spanish: Basílica Menor del Santo Niño; Italian: Basilica Minore del Santo Bambino) is a minor basilica in Cebu City in the Philippines that was founded in the 16th century. It is the oldest Roman Catholic church established in the country, purportedly built on the spot where the image of the Santo Niño de Cebú, a statue depicting the Holy Child Jesus was found in 1565 by Spanish explorers led by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The image is the same statue given by Ferdinand Magellan to the wife of Rajah Humabon as a gift over forty years before after Humabon's baptism to Christianity
on April 14, 1521. It was found by a soldier preserved in a burnt
wooden box after Legazpi razed the village of hostile natives.
The present building, which was completed from 1739-1740, has been the sanctuary of the oldest religious image in the country ever since. A full schedule of masses from 5:00 am to 12:00 midnight are held every Friday at the basilica for devotees of the Holy Child Jesus and followers of novena.
COLON STREET
Colon Street is a crowded street in downtown Cebu City that is often called the oldest and the shortest national road in the Philippines. It is named after Christopher Columbus. It traces its origins to the town plan by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, the Spanish conquistador who arrived in the Philippines to establish a colony in 1565.
Colon, a bit run-down now, was the site of fashionable shops, offices
and movie houses. It was once the heart of Cebu City's shopping and
business activity, but in recent years (specifically during the early
1990s), much of this activity has shifted inland to the more modern,
bigger and diverse commercial and business districts now spread in
almost all of the urban areas of the city in what used to be considered
residential and leisure settlements.
CEBU PROVINCIAL CAPITOL
The Cebu Provincial Capitol is
the seat of the provincial governance of Cebu. It is a neoclassical
edifice organized by Designer Juan Arellano and built by Pedro Siochi
& Accompany, Inc. Artefact started in 1937 during the incumbency of
Governor Sotero Cabahug and painted one gathering subsequent during the
minute of Control Buenaventura Rodriquez.
The Cebu Provincial Capitol structure is noticeable with a fundamental stadium and two wings. Beneath the bowl, whose inland is stained with sceneries portraying the sphere and its constituents, is a rotunda with a convenient beg. Staircases emanating from the important entering at the land point lead to this tap from which are hallways with varied flat busy by the diametrical offices of the pokey government. Also come the lobby is the entree to the Interpersonal Hall, a ballroom wainscoted with trine biggest.
The Cebu Provincial Capitol structure is noticeable with a fundamental stadium and two wings. Beneath the bowl, whose inland is stained with sceneries portraying the sphere and its constituents, is a rotunda with a convenient beg. Staircases emanating from the important entering at the land point lead to this tap from which are hallways with varied flat busy by the diametrical offices of the pokey government. Also come the lobby is the entree to the Interpersonal Hall, a ballroom wainscoted with trine biggest.
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