Inside Fort San Pedro.
Inside Fort San Pedro. One of the original doors and its knocker / "knob" dating back to the Spanish occupation in the Philippines.
One of the countless child vendors outside Magellan's Cross.
Cebu Metropolitan Church - according to faq.ph, this is "the ecclesiastical seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cebu. The cathedral was first constructed in 1689, completed in 1909, and rebuilt in 1950 after it was almost destroyed during World War 2."
Entrance to Fort San Pedro - built under the command of Miguel López de Legazpi, it is the smallest and oldest triangular fort in the country. Two sides faced the sea and the other one faced land. This place has so many stories to tell having been used and maximized through the decades. We were told that egg whites were mixed in the cement / stones used to construct the Fort (same was done with a lot of our old Catholic churches in the country which explains why they still stand to this day).
Magellan's Cross. Erected by Portuguese and Spanish explorers led by Ferdinand Magellan in celebration of the baptism of Rajah Humabon, his wife Queen Juana and some of their followers into Roman Catholicisim on April 21, 1521.
They were doing some construction around the cross until the end of the month. Good thing we still got to see from outside the gates.
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Cebu City, Philippines
