Trip to Cebu #2

Here are more pictures from our trip to Cebu City.

This is Fort San Pedro - built by Legaspi when he returned with Spanish reinforcements 40 years after Magellan. The original fort was wood but was replaced quickly with a stone fort.

The original well still has water in the bottom!

A group of students playing guitars, banduras and a "cello" like a bass guitar.
Dancer in native costume outside the fort.
I love the shell lights!!

This is the Basicilia of the Santa Nino (baby Jesus). The story is that Magellan brought a statue of Jesus as a child. It was left behind when the Spanish left after Magellans death. When Legaspi returned 40 years later, a tribe had found it and made a special shrine. The tribe was convereted to the Catholic Church and the statue is housed in the Basilica. (built in the 1600's)

Magellan's Cross is kept in a small rotunda next to the Basilica. Over the years so many people kept taking pieces off the cross that it is now encapsulated inside another cross.

The Cebu Cathedral dates to the mid/late 1700's.

The organ is one of the oldest organs in the Philippines still in existance. (many were destroyed during the bombing of WWII)