TOPS Cebu
Hilltop viewing terraces of stone arches and hexagonal flooring, offering three-hundred-sixty-degree views of city, mountains and sea.
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This guide to TOPS Cebu follows provincial governor Emilio "Lito" Osmena, a frustrated architect who in 1985 had this hilltop above Cebu City leveled and sketched the stone patterns still underfoot, naming his creation The Top. It traces the site's first, playful incarnation of cogon-roofed huts on bamboo ladders, and what jeepney and taxi drivers around the city started calling the place instead, no matter how often the governor corrected them. It also covers the 2024 rebuild that kept the old stone arches while adding new dining terraces above the mountains and sea.
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