Casa Gorordo Museum
Coral-stone bahay na bato with capiz-shell windows, home to four generations including Cebu's first Filipino bishop.
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This guide to Casa Gorordo Museum in Cebu City follows Juan Gorordo, born in 1862 to a Basque merchant father who bought this coral-stone house, from a boy walking out these doors toward the seminary at twelve to a young priest teaching Latin to the city's elite, including a student who later sat in the Philippine Assembly. It traces four generations who called the house home under Spanish, then American rule, and the church appointment that awaited Gorordo once Rome took notice. Listen for how a house built by a foreign trader ended up shaping who could lead Cebu's church.
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