Cebu, Philippines

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A memorial inside a stone rotunda sits across from Cebu City Hall on the site where Magellan

erected a wooden cross in early 1521 and converted some of the locals to Catholicism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Basilica Minore Del Santo Niņo is the holiest of churches in the Philippines.  It was originally

built in 1565, burned down three times and finally rebuilt in its present form in 1737.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Street vendors outside Magellan's Cross and the basilica

 

 

 

 

The New Church of Cebu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bridge connecting Cebu and Mactan Island

 

 

 

 

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