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Cebu Provincial Capitol

N. Escario St, cor Gov. M. Roa St, Cebu City, 6000 Cebu

Neoclassical seat of provincial government with a domed rotunda and dueling bronze statues out front.

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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