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A Glimpse of The Museo Sugbo w/ the Pre-Colonial Gallery

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Museo Sugbo is  housed at what once called Carcel de Cebu, a provincial jail of Cebu.  "A GLIMPSE OF THE MUSEO SUGBO W/ THE PRE-COLONIAL GALLERY" Designed in 1869 by Domingo de Escodrillas, the lone arcithect in Cebu at that time, the Carcel de Cebu was originally proposed as the Carcel del Distrito, the main prison or the Visayas District. This accounts for its relatively large size at that time it was built. After a flurry of endorsements and independent review in Manila, the project was approved and construction commence                d on 1870. It is believed that most of the coral stone blocks from the Parian Church which was ordered closed by the Bishop after winning a long-drawn court case against its parishioners in the 1850's were used to built part of the Carcel. After over twenty years of used, a renovation was ordered in 1892. Records are not clear as to when the second storey o...
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                "Unleashing the Antiquity of the Prominent  Fort San Pedro"        - Welcome to the Fort San Pedro. The Fort San Pedro is one of the famous tourist destination here in Cebu City. It is the oldest and smallest fort of the Philippines. At first it was built for a purpose which is to repel sieges by hostile natives and pirates. The construction of the Fort San Pedro takes 200 years before it has finished in the year 1738 which was made by the Spaniards. The fort began as a single triangular bastion made of bricks and mud in 1565, with Spanish conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi breaking the ground for structure, naming it for his flagship on which he sailed in the Pacific Ocean in that same year. Later on, it served different purposes at various time in the island's history, first is from the year 1896 to 1898 it serves as a prison for local rebels during th...
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