Beautiful Cebu

Cebu is not the same colonial province time has forgotten decades ago. It is not a periphery to the center but rather, a destination with its own unique charm. Discover for yourself. See new destinations in the Cebu mainland. Read on...

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

BRIEFLY | Americanizing the plaza dedicated to Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, great Spanish conquestador





















BEFORE AND AFTER.

The flowers disappeared from the landscaping, leaving just green, white and gray in the picture, colors reminiscent of a Mormon church grounds. The white-washed obelisk looks as American as Washington DC.

White is not a Spanish color. Yellow is. The renovation disregarded history and alienates. It is more attuned to the American constructed Customs building instead of the Fort which is its contemporary. The downtown is supposed to be more European and Latin in influence standing side by side a scattering of American colonial structures.

The American part of the city starts at Jones Avenue and goes all the way up to Fuente Osmena and the Capitol. The American-style landscaping of the Plaza Independencia is better suited if it were done to Fuente Osmena instead.
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