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Cebu: Where history meets adventure
The Freeman
|July 18, 2025
It makes us happy that many of our younger generation are getting more and more interested in our history, this as evidenced by the growing attendance of Gabii sa Kabilin and other events that celebrate our past.
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You can even say Cebu is a place of living history, what with many of our most iconic churches and old historic buildings right smack in the middle of our urban areas, bustling towns, and neighborhoods.
Adventure? We have a lot of that too. What makes Cebu unique as a location is that you can be having an adventure at the beach in the morning but then make it to the peak of a mountain by noon.
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