MACTAN, Cebu

Mactan is an island that lies a few kilometers to the southeast of Cebu Island in the Philippines. The island is part of the Province of Cebu and is divided into Lapu-Lapu City and the municipality of Cordova. The island is connected to Cebu by the two bridges one of which is the Marcelo Fernan Bridge (Mactan II Bridge).


The Mactan- Cebu International Airport, the country's second busiest airport, is found on Mactan Island. Mactan is also the site of the Battle of Mactan, the first battle between native Filipinos and Europeans. In this battle, which occurred in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan met his death at the hands of the tribesmen under the local chieftain Lapu-Lapu, for whom Lapu-Lapu City was named.


Its popular products are guitars and ukeleles. [wikipedia]

Photo's of Mactan

[/center]


If you would like to share your photo's of the philippines, request for a flickr-account by clicking on the logo and join the philippine-isles.com group.



Please respect the

group rules and don't forget to add a philippine-isles.com tag to the photo's you submit.