Martes, Agosto 6, 2013

Lapyahan Festival

Why it is called LAPYAHAN ?


The Municipality of San REMIGIO celebrates the LAPYAHAN Festival in cognizance of the Town Fiesta. Lapyahan means shoreline, symbolized the arrival of the development and progress in the midst of this proud town after a long wait, when then it’s a venue of community where posted to guard the town or a stronghold when the Moro depredators were sighted. Laterally LAPYAHAN describes the unique feature of San Remigio for having the longest shoreline in Cebu Province with ala Boracay white beaches enough to taunt foreign and local tourists.





The theme of this festival is a combination of Town’s History and God’s gift natural beautiful shoreline. The first section of the festivity is history, the ritual dance chronologically symbolize from the very beginning from pre Spanish era, Japanese occupation then to American regime until the independence of what we are now.





In support of the nature we are exploring the synergy of agro- forestry and eco-tourism down to the shoreline. The dancer show how the farmers in upland area preserve the ecosystem from the mountain all the way to the shoreline up to the coral reef with the collaboration of the fishermen without damaging the nature but still maintain their economic activities to support the eco-tourism.






The costume and props use by the upland section, camouflage their motive of promoting the agro-forestry product to the low land community. Another concept of the farmers which they are going to portray is the products of agro-forestry system that are being sold to the shoreline community and the tourist market- like organic foods and ornamentation and made of variety crafts for souvenir item that come from the indigenous materials or recycle one. To sum up the people in the mountain have also a role to follow the flow of eco-system.




The props and costumes used by the dancers in coastal area still camouflage on how the cycle of deforestation, soil erosion and the greatest and the most damaging problem to the sea resources which is the siltation. The sea section to the line in the preservation of the marine resources as not to damage the productivity and diversity has allow the low land people to live comfortably along the LAPYAHAN; will be protected from strong sea currents and waves, and allow them to harvest a bountiful  fish product and other marine life. The creativity of the dancer show how the pollution coming from the upland area down to the sea, that damage the coral reef by dirtying the sea bed.
After all segments of presentation, the upland and coastal community should be able to show how to sustain the momentum of their currently positively efforts in the environmental rehabilitation and protection to support to our eco-system cycle of the area. This also enables the local people both upland and low land to utilize the manner that will ensure the sustained used of resources for future generation.
The conceptualization of the festival is similar to the shoreline act as the last point of the destination of the waves as connection between the sea and the dry land, in which the dancers story line concepts, movement vocabulary and floor pattern adhere the history and cultural roots of the people.



At the end we hope that the conceptualization of the theme, motif and the concept of this festival will spur the conversion of natural resources of this municipality as eco-tourism hub of Cebu North. So come and celebrate with us and appreciate the beauty of LAPYAHAN if only protected and the freshness of agro-forestry and marine products and watch the beautiful sunset along the shores of Tañon Strait.

Roman Catholic Church in honor of San Juan Nepumoceno


Historical Church in San Remigio


  • San Juan Nepumoceno Church



San Juan Nepomuceno was a spanish ship of the line launched in 1765 from the royal shipyard in (Cantabria). Like many 18th Century Spanish warships she was named after a saint(John of Nepumok). She was a solidly built ship of proven seaworthy qualities.
Her sister-ships were San Pascual, 
San Francisco de Asis, San Lorenzo, Santo Domingo and San Agustin.
She was originally fitted with a total of 74 cannons: 28 24-pounders, 30 18-pounders, 8 12-pounders and 8 8-pounders, and was manned by 8 officers, 11 midshipmen, 19 leading seamen and 492 able seamen (530 total). Her supply capacity was for 60 days victuals and 80 days water.
She rendered numerous important services to the Armada (fleet), some of them in the Caribbean where she participated in several sieges and was distinguished in 1779.
In 1793, she took part in the Anglo-Spanish occupation of Toulon under the command of Admiral Don Juan De Langara . Four years later, in 1797, she was part of a Spanish fleet under Teniente General Jose de Cordoba y Ramos that fought against the British at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.



Battle of Trafalgar













   




  TheBattle of Trafalgar is the historical feat in which she participated and of which we have the best account. In spite of being dismasted by Admiral Nilson's artillery on 21 October 1805, she achieved glory in this battle under the command of the famous Brigadier Don Cosme Damian Churruca and constituted for the Spaniards a handsome example of the heroism of their nation and the bravery of their sailors.

The San Juan Nepomuceno was one of the last ships still fighting after most of the French ships had surrendered and most of the Spanish ships had either been captured or had yielded. The commander, Don Cosme Churruca, had previously ordered for the flag to be nailed to the highest mast. At the time, it was commonplace for ships to signal surrender by lowering their nation's flag. 'Nailing the flag' was a way to tell the enemy, allies, and indeed the ship's own crew and officers not to expect an easy surrender. As the hours passed, the wounded Admiral Nelson continued to direct the battle, while the Brigadier Churruca, whose leg had been torn off by a cannon ball, the deck of his ship covered by the blood of his wounded and dead seamen, continued to stubbornly order his ship's batteries to fire. Mortally wounded, the Basque-born Churruca prohibited his officers from surrendering and ordered them to continue returning fire whilst he remained breathing. His officers kept their word, even after Churruca died and command of the ship had been passed to Francisco de Moyna (second-in-command), who continued the fight until he himself was killed, replaced by the next officer in command who also refused to surrender (he later fell under musket fire and was replaced by yet another officer). However, unable to break the circle of fire formed by the six enemy ships, which counted among others with the famous Defiance,Tonnant andDreadnoughts, and in order to prevent the ship from sinking with all the wounded trapped below, the last officer left alive on theSan Juan Nepomuceno yielded with over 400 dead and injured on board. The British obtained a brilliant victory but paid a high price in lives.


Linggo, Agosto 4, 2013

Cebu's Longest Shorline





Municipality of San Remigio
    a third class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippine.
  • The Origin of San Remigio


San Remigio was a formerly known as  "Kanghagas",a kind of tree that grew abundantly  in the place.
When the Spanish conquistadores came, they identified a town site by clearing the Kanghagas trees through self-help labor. It was governed by a captain or gobernadorcillo.
Kanghagas was a barangay unit of Punta. Sometimes in the early 1800, Punta was renamed Punta Isabel, in honor of Queen Isabela II of Spain. This marked the beginning of its social and educational advancement because people from the scattered area learned to settle in a common place.
About the later part of the 1820s, the Spaniards converted Punta Isabel into a town headed by its first Gobernadorcillo, Capitan Juan Goopio, through a representative election participated in by the Cabezas de Barangay of the six original barangays, namely: Hagnaya, Punta, Bangtad (Lambusan}, Victoria, Kanghagas and Mano.
When the marauding Moro pirates swept through the shores of northern Cebu, the townfolks organized themselves into homeguards through ronda system under the command of a Spanish sentinel, by the name of Remigio Multon. His bravery and heroism during the fight against the pirates gained himself distinction as he was honored by prefixing the word "San" to his name--to lend religious dignity to his name. In addition to his honor, Kanghagas was later renamed as San Remigio which later on became the seat of the local government. As a sign of gratitude to him the residents named the town in his honor and endowed him with saintly assets. Eventually, San Remigio became the name of the town as this replaces Punta Isabel.


  • San Remigio Beach Resorts and Tourist Spots
    
 Take your first step inside our serene sanctuary and allow the fresh sea breeze to gently blow away the cobwebs from your weary soul. Acquaint yourself with every square inch of our luch gardens, our swimming pools, our sandy beaches, and realize that each detail was designed with you in mind. Savor the tastes of the fresh catch from our seas, or feast on the gourmet delights of our restaurants.

Dive off our shores, and discover the breathtaking beauty of our colorfully chaotic marine lifehttp://www.sanremigiobeachclub.com.ph/images/stories/summer.jpg.







         












Lingay Beach Resorts
   









Casa del Mar Golf & Dive Hotel

   Maño / Bancasan, San Remigio, Cebu

















 Warren's Beach Resort







Hard Rock Resort










  • San Remigio School

The town of San Remigio has plenty of public elementary and secondary schools. Secondary are San Remigio National High School, Lambusan National High School, Libaong National High School, Jose Martines Memorial (Gawaygaway) National High School, San Miguel National High School and Luyang National High School. Each barangay has an elementary and primary schools.

  • Fossils that has been found in San Remigio by USC archeologist students.