Cebu Provincial Capitol
Neoclassical seat of provincial government with a domed rotunda and dueling bronze statues out front.
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This guide to the Cebu Provincial Capitol opens with the two bronze statues facing off on its driveway, Sergio Osmena, the only Cebuano to become Philippine president, and Lapu-Lapu, the chieftain who killed Ferdinand Magellan on a nearby beach. It traces the capitol itself from the City Beautiful planning of 1910 through construction under architect Juan Arellano and the 1938 ribbon-cutting by President Manuel Quezon. Carved across the front, in the government's own words, is a promise that authority emanates from the people.
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