"Built around the early 1800′s, the watch tower served to protect the locality from marauders from the seas.”
HISTORY
The Bantayan sa Hari (Kings Moro watch tower or baluarte) is a historic relic that figures prominently in the seal of the city of Mandaue. This is a watch tower where the guards of the rulers of Cebu kept watch on the pirates approaching the city, particularly when the Moro raiders begun concentrating their attacks on the towns of northern Cebu after Fray Julian Bermejo's effective blockade and defense of the south. A bell in the tower kept the villagers informed about any such danger as they would then take refuge in the Patriarch church of Saint Joseph.
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| Bantayan sa Hari, 1912 |
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| Bantayan sa Hari, 1936 |
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LOCATION
This is a historical landmark of Mandaue City situated below the Mandaue–Mactan Bridge and located right in the heart of Barangay Looc.
QUICK FACTS
In wanting to preserve the historic structure, well meaning but ill-advised authorities cemented over the relic, thus its totally modern finish.The structure is now being renovated by the newly elected Mayor.
RELATED ARTICLE
"Revisited: Bantayan sa Hari" by Lorna Beduya
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