Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu Lapu-Lapu City is a first class and a highly urbanized city in the province of Cebu. It occupies most of the Mactan Island, and also covers the Olango Island group and a few islets. The city is also part of the Cebu Metropolitan Area. The city is joined to Mandaue City on mainland Cebu by the Mactan-Mandaue Bridge and Marcelo Fernan Bridge. Mactan-Cebu International Airport, the second busiest airport in the Philippines, is located at Lapu-Lapu City. History History has it that Mactan Island although small was a thriving community when the great Magellan was in Cebu. The brave Spanish navigator and soldier, upon learning that some inhabitants on this tiny island across Cebu refused to recognize the King of Spain, burned one of the villages. Lapu-Lapu was one of the native leaders who refused to acknowledge the sovereignty of Spain over the Islands. When Magellan, with three boatloads of Spaniards and twenty boatloads of Cebuanos, went to Mactan to help a frie...
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