Cebu Magellan’s Cross
Magellan’s Cross is a Christian Cross planted by Portuguese and Spanish Explorers as ordered by Ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521. It is mainly located in a street aptly name for the first Portuguese to set foot in Cebu, Magallanes. He planted a cross to signify this important event about the propagation of the Roman Catholic faith in what is now Cebu, in central Philippines. The original cross is reputedly encased in another wooden cross for protection, as people started chipping it away in the belief that it had miraculous healing powers.
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Welcome to Malapascua Island, Philippines
Malapascua is a tiny island also called Logon, only about 2.5 kilometers long and 1km wide, located across a shallow strait from the northernmost tip of mainland Cebu. It is situated in the province of Daanbantayan and the island is covered by the insular barangay of Logon (part of the Daanbantayan municipality), with eight hamlets. Visitors can take a dive in the crystal clear ocean at the wreck of a World War II Japanese ship or go snorkeling among the fishes at the many coral reefs surrounding the island, take a trip around the island, or just relax in the white sand and let the wind in the palm trees till you sleep.
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Team Cebu nails third in the Philippine Olympic Festival-bound Team
The Philippine Olympic Festival bound Team Cebu City Football finished third in the Pintaflores Football Festival in San Carlos City. A third-place finish may be a respectable achievement, but coach Mario Ceniza says they still have a lot of work to do if they are to compete with the traditional powerhouse Iloilo in the POF later this year in Cagayan de Oro City. Not all members of POf-Tcc joined the San Carlos City event, while Iloilo sent its full squad and eventually defeated the Host Team, 4-1 to rule the event.
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Sinulog Festival for Señor Santo Niño
Nowhere else in the Philippines can one witness a yearly historical pageantry in parade known as Sinulog which is part of a religious observance except in Cebu City. The Sinulog is an annual festival held on every third Sunday of January. It honors the child known as the Santo Niño, patron of the city of Cebu. The dance moves two steps forward and one step backward to the sound of the drums. This resembles the current (Sulog) of what was then known as Cebu’s Pahina River. Thus, in Cebuano, they say it’s Sinulog. The Sinulog dance steps were believed to originate from Rajah Humabon’s adviser, Baladhay. It was during Humabon’s grief when Baladhay was driven sick. He then ordered his natives to bring Baladhay into a chapel where the Sto. Niño was enthroned. The festival now features a street parade with participants in bright-colored costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs.
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Cebu
Cebu also known as Zubu (or Sugbo), is one of the famous islands in the Philippines that lie to the east of Negros Island; to the west of Leyte and to the southeast of Bohol province. It is located between 9°25′N and 11°15′N latitude and between 123°13′E and 124°5′E longitude in the center of the archipelago. As of the 2007 census, there were 798,000 people living in Cebu City, with over 3.5 million in the entire province. Cebuano is their native dialect and also spoken in most parts of Central and Southern Philippine Islands, including Bohol, western Leyte, Negros Oriental, the northern and eastern coast of Mindanao, some parts of Bukidnon, Agusan, Surigao, Davao, Cotabato, and Zamboanga del Sur. While Filipino is commonly understood and spoken, the English language is widely used in business transactions and educations.
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