Some 45 years after Chieftain Lapu-Lapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan on the shores of Mactan, a Spanish group led by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi came back to Cebu and set up the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines known as Villa San Miguel. The nucleus of this settlement is Fort San Pedro, which was…
Author: Louela Pegarido
Fashion for less at Tabo sa Banay
Cebuanos love to bargain. In Cebu, bargain means Tabo sa Banay. Tabo is a Cebuano word for gathering or the verb to meet or to gather. Banay means family or race. Tabo sa banay for the locals refer to a gathering of the community where selling and buying take place at affordable prices. For a…