WARRIOR

LAPU-LAPU

Monument of Lapu Lapu

The famous explorer Magellano was the first one that tried the turn
of the world. Circumnavigated America of the South, it aimed the rudder
to east and it was so that it discovered the islands Philippines in 1521.
Landed to Cebù, you/he/she was festively welcomed by the King and by him
native of the city.

Quickly that native were baptized and Magellano for
to make to see his/her benevolence toward of them declared war to
one enemy of theirs, the King Lapulapu, that reigned in one
isolettavicina,Mactan), and with his/her crew it tried the unloading.
But Lapulapu, the brims an insidious trap and it killed him/it
personally on the waterline.

An only ship succeeded in escaping to the attacks of the native,
and the sopravissutis decided to continue the turn of the world.
They made her/it and thanks to one of Italians on board, Anthony
Pigafetta, that he/she subsequently wrote his/her memories, knows
today something of that historian adventure.

Only quite a lot years after Spain it decided to conquer the
Philippines, that called this way in honor of the King Filippo of
Castile.

Miguel Lopez de Legaspi was sent to the conquest
of the archipelago. In Cebù it didn't find any Christian but one
figurine of the Saint Jesus Child, recovered by the soldiers
Spanish among the ruins of a house, it testified that Magellano
you/he/she was passed indeed there and Pigafetta had not told
nonsense.
The figurine of the Saint Jesus Child had been given as a present from
Magellano to the Princess Juana.