Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts

SM CITY, CEBU

SM City, Cebu is located in North Reclamation Area near cebu city port area. It is a 4 storey building and has land area of 11.8 hectares and the total floor area of 268,611 sq.m.It is the first mall outside metro manila and the biggest mall in metro cebu and it is the 4th biggest mall nation wide.

SM city, was opened in November 2003 catered the low and the middle class shoppers, Northwing expansion started in march 2006 and opened in November 2007 to answer the demand of the parking area and to target the high class shopper. 

SM City, Cebu is now the center of the activities, trade fair, Parties, concert venue and meeting place for most of the cebuanos or even in the neighboring provinces.
Read More......

Alcantara, Cebu

Entrance of Municipality of Alcantara

Road at the Public Market

Alcantara Public Market

Alcantara, Cebu is the 5th class town in Cebu and it is located
southern part of cebu province which before Moalboal and
after Ronda and it is estimated to be 85.3km from the

Before, It is called KOGTONG from the big fish which said to 
inhabitant of the spring in the heart of the town until the spaniard 
came and rename it alcantara after a town of spain.
Alcantara separated from the neighboringtown, 
Ronda and moalboal and become a town at the year 
1830

Alcantara is subdivided into 9 barangays namely:
Cabadiangan, Cabil-isan, Candabung,
Lawaan, Manga, Palanas, Poblacion,
Polo and Salagmaya
Read More......

Cebu Provincial Capitol

Cebu Provincial Capitol is located at the north end of Osmeña Boulevard
It serve as the house of the elected governor 
Provincial Capitol Building was built during the administration of 
Gov. Sotero Cabahug in 1937.It is the replication of United States white house
and One of the many beautiful capitol buildings in the country

Read More......

Kalesa or Calesa is the oldest modes of Transportation

Kalesa or Calesa is a horse driven cart.
It was introduce in 18th century during the Spanish colonial period.
This  became the modes of transportation here in the Philippines.
Before only rich people used the calesa for their personal travel as well as  
for the transport of goods to nearby area. 

Now a days cebuanos still using Calesa or kalisa as modes of trasportation
especially at carbon market along magallanes st.

Read More......

Dumanjug, Cebu Philippines(The Town of Friendship)

 Dumanjug Excutive Bldg.
This Building was empty for several of years and renovated 
under the administration of Mayor Ceasar Baricuatro,
 St, Francis of Asisi Parish Church
As I read St, Francis of Asisi Parish Church the most beautiful 
of the 19th century churches in western Cebu. It is made of finely
cut sea corals stone, limestone and Balayong (native black wood), 
The bell tower is in the one side of the church and has a dodecagonal plan,

 Entrance of Dumanjug Plaza
The land of this Plaza was donated by Jakusalem Family

 Dumanjug Plaza

 Dumanjug plaza

According to the old Dumanjuganon, Dumanjug is from the
word,Duman which was the king of the municipality.
Nahug means fallen, the cause of the king's death.
It was established in 1855 by Capitan Pedro Ricamora and
Padre Agustin Melgar

Dumanjug is located in western south of cebu, about 74
kilometersfrom cebu city.It has a land area of 11,958 hectares.
and boundedby town of Barili, on the east by the town of
Sibonga,on the southby town of Ronda, and on the
west by the Tañon Strait.

 Every October 4 Dumanjug is celebrating their annual fiesta in
Honor of St. Francis of Assisi.There is street Dancing festival
so called sinangyaw. Sinangyaw from the word Sinanggi at
Sayaw means harvesting and dancing

Duamnjug is also called the TOWN OF FRIENDSHIP,
for Dumanjug will be the host for any events in the south such as
Beauty pagents,Basketball tournaments, Swiming competitation,
DanceSports, and Festive Celebration

Abante Dumanjug is the saying of the Duamjuganon.
Read More......

Baslica of Santo Nino de Cebu

The church and Convent of Sto Nino ereccted 
by the Agustinian fathersunder the Rev. Andres Urdaneta
in 1565 were the first establish in the philippines.
Both were born down November 1,1566. The second Church
was likewise destroye by fire in march of 1628,
But rebulid soon after (1628-1629) under the administration of
the historian Rev.Juan de Medina, O.S.A
The present massive churchwas designed and constructed
during the priorship of Rev. Juan Albabran, O.S.A.(1735-1737).
The Sto.Nino Venerated in this church since the
time of Legaspi, is a center of the devotion and religious Pilgrimages
through out the Visayas
Witten at the Wall of the Church

 The Church of Sto Nino
 Pilgirm of Sto.Nino in Cebu




Read More......

Cebu Photo Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).