Plaza Independencia

This guide to Plaza Independencia in Cebu City follows the square through every regime that ever held it, from Spanish soldiers drilling as the Plaza de Armas beside Fort San Pedro to a queen in Madrid who lent it her name without ever visiting. It traces the run of renamings through American rule and into the Filipino era, then turns to a 2006 tunnel dig beneath the plaza that struck something unexpected in the ground. Listen for what the diggers found, and what it says about who was here before any of the names on record.