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Lapu-Lapu City Fiesta in Lapu-Lapu City,Cebu Created on October 22, 2012, 2:54 am Posted by nup

November 21 – November 22
Join for the colorful rites to honor the Virgin of the Rule. Patron of Lapu-Lapu City. Every year during a fiesta, a fluvial parade is being held on Mactan channel in honor of Nuesta Senora. This has been the tradition of the people of Opon, also known as Lapu-Lapu City. I am very excited to join the fiesta fluvial parade, which will take off in the morning of November 12, 2008. The patron of Lapu-Lapu City will be placed on a yacht and will tour around Mactan Island.

As of on now the Patron is already visiting to barangay chapels here in Lapu-Lapu. In fact, she has already visited our barangay. The youths worshiped her and prayed to her all night long. Then after that she will be transferred to a nearby barangay for another worship.
A short history of Mactan Island known as Lapu-Lapu City

“On April 8, 1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrived in Cebu and discovered the island.
Magellan planted a cross in the island that would become Cebu’s most famous landmark (Magellan’s Cross). While in the island, Magellan picked a fight with Cebu’s local chieftain Lapu-Lapu that led to the now legendary Battle of Mactan. Magellan was killed in the battle and most of his men were annihilated by the locals that marked one of the histories most stunning war reversals.

February 1565 that’s fourty-four years later, Spain sent another expedition at Cebu headed by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, which eventually succeeded in colonizing Cebu and the central islands of the Visayas as well as the northern islands of Luzon. The whole archipelago was name as Las Islas Filipinas in honor of the then Spanish King Philip II. Spain ruled Philippines within 400 years that produced several rebellions and many Philippine heroes foremost among them was Dr. Jose Rizal who was recently been accorded as hero of the Malayan race.

In May 1898 the Americans defeated the Spaniards in the Battle of Manila Bay and took control of the Philippines. The US Government awarded the Philippines independence in 1946 but retained favored trade pacts and several U.S. military bases within the country. In 1991 the Philippine Senate voted against the continuation of US Military bases that effectively ended Americas presence in the Philippines.