Magellan Monument
Mactan Shrine, also known as Liberty Shrine or Lapulapu Monument, is a memorial park on the island of Mactan in Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines. It hosts two monuments—the Magellan Monument, which is dedicated to Portuguese born explorer Ferdinand Magellan, and…
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mactan Shrine and Lapulapu Monument.
Mactan Shrine
Park
Lapulapu Monument
Work of art
Mactan Shrine, also known as Liberty Shrine or Lapulapu Monument, is a memorial park on the island of Mactan in Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines. It hosts two monuments—the Magellan Monument, which is dedicated to Portuguese born explorer Ferdinand Magellan, and…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Basak and Olango Island.
Basak
Suburb
Basak is a barangay in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu Province, Central Visayas, Philippines. It is bounded in the northeast by Pusok and Bankal, in the east by Pajac and Agus, in the southeast by Marigondon and Subabasbas, in the west by Babag and Gun-ob, and in the northwest by Pajo. Basak is situated 6 km southwest of Magellan Monument.
Olango Island
Opao
Suburb
Mandaue, officially the City of Mandaue, is a highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 364,482 people. Opao is situated 7 km west of Magellan Monument.
Magellan Monument
- Type: Memorial
- Description: monument dedicated to Ferdinand Magellan in Mactan, Philippines
- Categories: monument and historic site
- Location: Lapu-Lapu, Metro Cebu, Cebu Province, Central Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
10.31082° or 10° 18′ 39″ north
Longitude
124.01523° or 124° 0′ 55″ east
Inception
1866
Open location code
7Q268268+83
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From French to Tagalog—“Magellan Monument” goes by many names.
- French: “monument à Magellan”
- French: “Monument à Magellan”
- Spanish: “Monumento a Magallanes”
- Tagalog: “Bantayog ni Magallanes”
- Tagalog: “Dambanang Magallanes”
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