Magellan’s Cross Cebu

Magellan’s Cross
Cebu City

How to Get to Magellan’s Cross

Being located in the same vicinity, at least three famous landmarks can be toured on foot: Fort San Pedro, Magellan’s Cross and Basilica del Sto. Ni?o. Historically, these three are related to each other.

It is not difficult to find your way there. From anywhere in Cebu, the easiest is to take a taxi. You may also ask the locals which jeepney will pass near the area. Jeepneys in Cebu are coded with a number and letter combination depending on the route. The locals would guide you about those jeepney numbers. But as you may have difficulty familiarizing those codes, the simpler way is for you to just read the route written on the sides. You are sure to reach your destination if you find “Magallanes” written on it. Or you may have a map on hand and find which street are near those landmarks and take a jeepney with that street name written on its side. If that route would not directly pass by those landmarks, it is always fun to get off somewhere nearby and enjoy walking. Wherever you get off, find either Osmena Blvd..or Magallanes St. which are the two streets flanking the Basilica. Magellan’s cross is situated just at the south gate of the Basilica. Walking southeast either at Magallanes St. or Osmena Blvd toward the port area and then through the pathways of Plaza Independencia will take you to Fort San Pedro. (source:http://www.waypoints.ph/detail_gen.php?wpt=magx)

Magellan’s Cross, the most famous historical religious land-mark in the Philippines. This wooden religious cross was planted by Ferdinand Magellan on April 14, 1521 and plays part in our history. When this was planted, it symbolized the beginning of the baptizing of the people here in the Philippines by the Spaniards and the start of the spread of Christianity. The original cross (or remnants of it) has been, preserved and the locals have created in a newly bigger wooden cross, and in 1834, they placed it on a concrete pedestal and inside the kiosk. Ever since 1585, colonial building built by the Spaniards and other religious places gave Cebu city a more and more Spanish and Catholic descent.