LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu – Around 25 mayors and government officials from Spain, Portugal, Argentina and other relevant cities for Spanish conquistador Ferdinand Magellan visited the site where property developer Megaworld is constructing Plaza Magellan, a themed mall fronting the historic Mactan Shrine, as part of its 30-hectare The Mactan Newtown township. The mall will feature a museum in a life-sized replica of Magellan’s Galleon Victoria, the ship used by Magellan to circumnavigate the globe.

Megaworld Cebu Properties, Inc. president Noli D. Hernandez (rightmost) shows a cake replica of Galleon Victoria to (L to R) Mayor Emilio Boccazzi Campos and Cecilia Prado of Punta Arenas, Chile; Jose Manuel Nuñez dela Fuente, Secretary General, Global Network of of Magellan Cities; Antonio Muñoz, Vice Mayor of Seville, Spain; Cebu City Mayor Mike Rama; Lapu Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza; Alberto Laplaine Guimaraes, General Secretary of International Affairs under the office of the Mayor of Lisbon, Portugal; Antonio Jesus Jimenez Ruiz, Head of Tourism and Urbanism Office under the office of the Mayor of Seville, Spain; and Monica Castro, Tourism Head of Puerto San Julian, Argentina.