Lapu-Lapu and his warriors repelled the Spanish invaders on Mactan Island on 27 April 1521, killing his leader, Fernando Magellan.
Mactan Island belongs to the Province of Cebu and has two bridges connecting Cebu Island and Cebu City, and Mactan Cebu International Airport is the second largest airport in the Philippines and a transportation hub in the central Philippines.
On April 27, 1521, the famous navigator Magellan (Portuguese, serving the Spanish government) encountered stubborn resistance from the natives on Mactan Island, and was eventually killed by lapu-Lapu, the island's tribal leader. Mactan Island became famous for this, and in 1961 it was renamed lapu-Lapu.
Today I am busy to see where Magellan died, but think about it, something is not quite right, Magellan is not a very cool, talented, and very sailing skilled young seafaring king, how did he land on Mactan Island and suddenly killed, why?
In this way, the plot development should be towards assassins and assassins, come on people! Lapu Lapu kills people and develops ah! So why do people think of Lapu Lapu as a hero? Please, kill people to pay for their lives!
In order to find out and study the history, it was found that Magellan was actually a very weak person, and in the case of reluctance, he had to be very chicken to get the natives, of course, on the one hand, in order to promote colonial rule, on the other hand, he wanted to maintain relations with the locals, so he was sent to interfere in the bullshit of the island chieftain's religious belief.
The Philippines was made up of many small islands, and one of the kings and queens of the island wanted to use Catholicism as a tool to consolidate power, and most of the other island owners at that time were actually full of cooperation.
One day, however, a chief sent his son, leading two lambs, to the king and saying, "Hey! We also want to be religious! But Lapu Lapu doesn't give people a letter!!!"
When the king heard that it was really golden, he instructed Magellan to help him negotiate with Lapu Lapu on Mactan Island, magellan cried and did not want to go at all, and wrote a love letter to Lapu Lapu before going to Mactan Island, but Lapu Lapu just did not like him, the point is that he still has a bad temper.
The site of the monument is where lapu-Lapu,the tribal chief of Mactan Island fought and died in battle with Magellan, and there is a huge statue of Lapu-Lapu,The National Hero of the Philippines who struck less and more, as well as a monument commemorating Magellan and Spain. Filipinos do not have a particular fondness or dislike for these two historical figures, and both are regarded as great men worth commemorating, thus forming an interesting phenomenon that there is also a commemoration of the Magellan Stone in laPu Monument Park.