The Bantayan sa Hari (Mandaue City, Mandaue City, Visayas)
The Bantayan sa Hari (Kings watch tower or baluarte) figures prominently in the seal of the city of Mandaue. Located at the Mandaue approached to the Mactan bridge,this symbol of Mandaue City is a historic relic built in the 19th century when moro raiders begun concentrating their attacks on the towns of northern Cebu after Fray Julian Bermejo's effective blockade and defense of the south.
Mandaue's ruble watch tower is lost amid the shanties and the gasoline depot that surround it,yet many Mandauehanons and Cebuanos feel justly proud of this tangible remnant of Spanish rule of the northeastern side of Cebu mainly the string of watch towers starting from Mandaue,Catmon,Tabogon,Bogo,San Remegio and Daan Bantayan. These watch towers or baluartes were built following the bishop's decree found in the archives of Daan Bantayan that stated,that each town build a system of fortification and defense as a string of shoreline baluartes or lantawans equipt with canons as shoreline defense patterned after Fray Bermejo's fortification in the southeastern Cebu in defense against moro raiders.
The Bantayan sa Hari (Kings watch tower or baluarte) figures prominently in the seal of the city of Mandaue. Located at the Mandaue approached to the Mactan bridge,this symbol of Mandaue City is a historic relic built in the 19th century when moro raiders begun concentrating their attacks on the towns of northern Cebu after Fray Julian Bermejo's effective blockade and defense of the south.
Mandaue's ruble watch tower is lost amid the shanties and the gasoline depot that surround it,yet many Mandauehanons and Cebuanos feel justly proud of this tangible remnant of Spanish rule of the northeastern side of Cebu mainly the string of watch towers starting from Mandaue,Catmon,Tabogon,Bogo,San Remegio and Daan Bantayan. These watch towers or baluartes were built following the bishop's decree found in the archives of Daan Bantayan that stated,that each town build a system of fortification and defense as a string of shoreline baluartes or lantawans equipt with canons as shoreline defense patterned after Fray Bermejo's fortification in the southeastern Cebu in defense against moro raiders.
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