Lapu-Lapu city – the highly-urbanized Philippine city of Cebu province, which occupies most of Mactan island, located a few kilometres from Cebu island. In the city territory also includes the island of Olango and several other small Islands. According to the census of 2007, there were 292 thousand people.

Lapu-Lapu is connected to the Mandaue city to Cebu island by two bridges – Mactan-Mandaue and Marcelo Fernan. Here is the Cebu international airport, the second largest in the Philippines. And here is the only one in the Visayas region of the aquarium.
Mactan island was colonized by the Spaniards in the 16th century, but only in 1730 monks from the order of the foothills founded a settlement Upon, which two centuries later, in 1961, was granted town status and was renamed in Lapu-Lapu city.

The city's name was given in honor of the leader of a local tribe Lapu-Lapu, who in 1521 killed Portuguese Explorer Ferdinand Magellan. In memory of this event in the memorial city Lapu-Lapu 20-meter bronze statue and a small chapel in the town of Punta Engano. Himself Lapu-Lapu, also known as the Caliph Pulaka, died in 1542. He was not only the leader of one of the local clans, but the ruler of the entire island of Mactan. When the Spaniards appeared on Cebu, began to actively convert the locals to Christianity, Lapu-Lapu opposed the colonialists. Today, Filipinos are equally revered by both heroes of the era: Magellan – as the discoverer of the country for Europe, Lapu-Lapu as the first national hero, a fighter for the independence of the country. It is therefore not surprising that on Cebu island immortalised in the memory of both historical characters.

Another attraction Lapu-Lapu city is a cable-stayed bridge Marcelo Fernan, one of two bridges connecting the island of Cebu. The bridge was opened in 1999 to reduce the traffic over the old bridge and the Mactan-Mandaue. The total length of the Marcelo Fernan – 1237 meters, it is considered one of the widest and the longest bridges in the Philippines. Your name, the bridge is named in honor of local politician Marcelo Fernan.

Tourists also visit the Mactan Aquarium – the only one in the Visayas region. The aquarium was opened in 2008, and today there are about 30 exhibits that introduce visitors to some of the most beautiful and amazing marine life of the planet. The highlight of the aquarium is an attraction, during which anyone can feed a real shark! By the way, this is the only in Asia, the attraction of this kind.