Location: Liberty Shrine, Punta Engaño Road, Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1951
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
LAPULAPU
HERE, ON 27 APRIL 1521, LAPULAPU AND HIS MEN REPULSED THE SPANISH INVADERS, KILLING THEIR LEADER, FERDINAND MAGELLAN. THUS LAPULAPU BECAME THE FIRST FILIPINO TO HAVE REPELLED EUROPEAN AGGRESSION.
