COLON STREET 

*Philippines Street Scene 

BEFORE AND AFTER 
Location: Colon St., Cebu City Visayas Region
Wayback 1890’s

DID YOU KNOW?!
*Colon Street is a historical street in downtown Cebu City
*Colon Street It called the Oldest Street in the Philippines and the shortest National Road in the Philippines
*It is named after Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus)
*It traces its origins to the town plan by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi the Spanish Conquistador who arrived in the Philippines to establish a colony in 1565
*Colon Street was owned by the family name Fronteras
*It was once the heart of Cebu City’s shopping and business activity but in recent years (specifically during the early 90’s) much of this activity has shifted in land to the more modern
*Now spread in almost all of the urban areas of the city in what was considered residential and leisure settlements
*In 2006 the cebu city council proposed a plan to close parts of colon street from vehicular traffic and convert it to a tourism zone