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Cebu Images

12 images Created 20 Jan 2010

Cebu is one of the most developed provinces in the Philippines, with Cebu City as the main centre of commerce, education and industry in the Visayas. Often called the "Queen City of the South" Cebu is the Philippines oldest city. and the the second largest. Cebuanos are proud of their cultural and historical heritage, a legacy which has endured through the centuries from the time the explorer Magellan first put down the cross on Cebu's shore.
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  • The Cebu Taoist Temple is located in Beverly Hills subdivision of Cebu City and was built by Cebu's sizeable Chinese community. The temple is the center of worship for Taoism, the religion which follows the teachings of the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tze.
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  • Guitar Makers at Alegre, Mactan Cebu - Though pre-colonial Visayans had a variety of string instruments which used a coconut shell or gourd as resonator - the guitar is a Spanish introduction. Guitars have been made in Cebu since the Spanish period. Guitar making in Cebu passes from generation to generation.
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  • Fort San Pedro is a military defence structure built by Spanish and indigenous labourers under the command of Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi and the Spanish colonial government in Cebu. It is located in the area now called Plaza Indepedencia, Cebu City, Philippines.
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  • Magellan's Cross was installed by  the Spanish explorer upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines in 1521.  This cross is housed in a chapel next to the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño just in front of the city hall of Cebu City.  Some people believe that the original cross was 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. Magellan's Cross is a symbol of Cebu.
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  • Sinulog Street Dancing - an annual event held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu, Philippines. The festival honors the vision of Santo Nino, the patron saint of the City of Cebu. The festival takes several days with beauty pageants, contests, and street dances that commemorates the Cebuano peoples origins and introduction of Roman Catholicism after the arrival of Magellan.
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  • Arched Colonial Architecture in Cebu City.  Although Cebu City has few colonial buildings left standing, the central business district retains a few surrounding Carbon Market.
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  • Carbon Market is the oldest and largest farmer's market in Cebu City.  The market gets its name from the depot where coal was unloaded from the Cebu Railroad many years ago.
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  • Filipinos are a very musical people, and Cebu is said to be the home of the best guitar craftsmen in the Philippines: good-quality guitars at incredibly affordable prices. The village of Abuno, Lapu Lapu City on Mactan Island, is the center of guitar making in the Philippines.
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  • Man with his Iguana and body painting of Santo Nino the local patron saint of Cebu. Like the image's counterpart in Prague, the figure is clothed in expensive textile robes mostly donations from fervent devotees in the Philippines and abroad. The statue is the oldest Catholic relic in the Philippines and permanently housed since 1565 at the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño in Cebu City.
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  • Guitar Players at Alegre Showroom, Cebu -  Guitars have been made in Cebu since the Spanish period mainly as a areplacement for organs for church music until organs were later imported and locally produced. Yet guitars developed as a local industry only in the present century, receiving support from the government's promotion of local cottage industries in the postwar period. In Mactan the craft of guitar making passes from generation to generation and the industry involves certain families, the most prominent is the Alegre family whose name has become a well-known names of Mactan or Cebu guitars.
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  • One of the best known landmarks in the Liloan area of Cebu City is its historic lighthouse at Bagacay Point. The original lighthouse was built in 1857 by the Spanish although the current tower was constructed in 1904 by order of William Howard Taft the first American Governor-General of the Philippines (and later President of the United States). The tower is 72 feet tall and still remains in active use today
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  • The convent of the Sto. Niño de Cebu was founded by Fr. Andres de Urdaneta in 1565, the very day the Legazpi expedition arrived in the island. When Legaspi and his men planned the urbanization of the city, they allotted a place for the church and the convent of San Agustin where the Santo Niño image had been found. The church has always been the Sanctuary of the Sto. Niño, under the custody of the Augustinians.
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