Bantayan sa Hari also called Buluarte in Mandaue City, Cebu is located below the Old Mandaue-Mactan Bridge in Barrio Looc, built around the early 1800's, the watchtower serve to protect the locality from marauders from the seas. The incursions of the Moro Pirates in the town led to the construction of the "Bantayan sa Hari". 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. In wanting to preserve the historic structure, well meaning but misguided authorities cemented over the relic thus its totally modern look.
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Early Sunday morning while I was biking I took some shots at Marcelo Fernan Bridge a bridge connecting Lapu-Lapu City to Mandaue City and captured some landscape scenery of quasi-industrial and vaguely technological ambience of Lapu-Lapu City, Mandaue City and Cebu City. Speaking of progress , to some it means improvement or a change for the better and until it reach the stage that this so called progress worsens and threatens to destroy the world we are living and realize that this man made wonders are deemed curse I guess it's the only time we'll say "We have to stop this progress" and realize it is too late.
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