Elizabeth Mall exterior, Leon Kilat Street, Cebu City

The Leon Kilat Street is a tribute to Pantaleon Villegas for his bravery and his love for his fellow citizens.
Len Kilat was a revolutionary leader in Cebu during the Philippine Revolution against Spain.
During the rebellion against Spain, Kilat led the revolutionaries in Cebu. Initially intending to begin the rebellion on Easter Sunday, he
was forced to change his plans when the Spaniards discovered the planned revolt. Kilat and his men began the rebellion in Cebu on
Palm Sunday, April 3, 1898. He was, however, betrayed and murdered on Good Friday, April 8, 1898, in Carcar, Cebu. He was
stabbed to death by his own aide-de-camp, Apolinario Alcuitas.

Ang Dakong Balay (Don Florencio Noel House) in Carcar City,

Cebu

On April 7, 1898 (Holy Thursday), Leon Kilat was in Carcar. His plan was to attack the Spaniards on Easter Sunday in Carcar. Leon
Kilat was treated as an honored guest and he stayed in the house of Tiyoy Barcenilla. Upon Leon Kilat's request, a tailor took his
measurements because Leon Kilat wanted a new uniform to wear the next day. A feast was prepared in the Barcenilla House for Leon
Kilat and guests.
What Leon Kilat did not know was that one of the men, Florencio Noel, had met the Spanish friar, Father Francisco Blanco. Father
Blanco had reportedly told Noel that the only way Carcar would escape Spanish retaliation was if Leon Kilat would be killed.
So, on the night of Holy Thursday, goat, chicken, pork were served to the men at the Barcenilla House, and afterwards, the men drank
coffee and Ginebra (gin) in the living room. Meantime, the Carcar men who had decided to do away with Leon Kilat, became ill at
ease, and they whispered among one another, and in fact, Apolinario Alcuitas shouted in Cebuano, "Brothers, I am informing all of
you that tonight, I will slaughter a horse."
All of this apparently went unnoticed by Leon Kilat, or perhaps he had too much Ginebra, because he didn't flee. He went to bed, in
the room near the stairs of the Barcenilla House. Vicente Barcenilla chatted with Leon Kilat in his room; he goes down in history as
the last person to have seen him alive.
Then sometime during the night, several men entered Leon Kilat's room. One of them used Kilat's own rifle butt to smash his skull.
And then the men stabbed Kilat. It was a collective deed, but Apolinario Alcuitas' name goes down in history as the assassin.
After insuring Leon Kilat was dead, the group brought his corpse to the center of town to display it. It was 5 a.m. Good Friday, April
9, 1898.
An earlier battle with the Spaniards was successful and the Spaniards had to retreat to Fort San Pedro. But the Spaniards quickly
dispatched a ship to Cebu. When the revolutionaries heard about the Spanish ship, they retreated to Carcar.

Fort San Pedro

Location: Plaza Indepedencia

Fuerte de San Pedro is a military defence structure,

built by Spanish and indigenous Cebuano labourers
under the command of Spanish conquistador, Miguel
Lpez de Legazpi and the Spanish
Government in Cebu. It served as a stronghold for
Filipino revolutionaries near the end of the 19th
century. This served as the nucleus of the first Spanish
settlement in the Philippines.

The Cry of Balintawak

Location: City of Naga, Cebu

The Cry of Pugad Lawin (Filipino: Sigw ng Pugad Lawin), alternately and originally referred to as the Cry of Balintawak was the
beginning of the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire.

Location: Balintawak Street in Colon Street, Cebu City

The street was named after the Revolution of the Filipinos named "The Cry of Balintawak" during the Spanish regime which was
led by Andres Bonifacio--the Supreme leader of Katipunan.

On August 26, Bonifacio assembled the leaders and hundreds of comrades-in-arms in the hills of Balintawak, north of Manila. In
an emotion-laden ceremony, the fighters tore their residence certificates to symbolize the termination of their loyalty to Spain
while shouting the battle cry: "Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!" The event went down in Philippine history as the "Cry of Balintawak" and
is regarded as the starting signal for the Philippine revolution.

Location: Mactan Island

The Dagami Revolt was a revolt against Spanish colonial rule led by the Lumad rebel, Dagami, in the island of Mactan in the
Philippines, in 1567.

Mactan Island is a place full of historical accountsthe very site where the Battle of Mactan occurred. Mactan Battle is the first battle
between native Filipinos and Europeans in 1521.

In this historic battle, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan met his death at the hands of Lapu-Lapu, one of the islands most famous
rulers. This place has what then became as Lapu-Lapu Cityan honor for one of the Philippines very first heroes. The marker can also
be found in the island, making the account more interestinginteresting enough for locals and foreigners to flag the place every year.
In fact, a yearly celebration has been conceptualized to commemorate this event.
Moreover, Mactan Island is one of the countrys symbolic indications of the Filipinos love for freedom and bravery in the face of
battles.

Mango Avenue, one of Cebu City's

main thoroughfares, was renamed
Maxilom Avenue in honor of the
general.

Mango Avenue, one of Cebu City's main thoroughfares, was renamed Maxilom Avenue in honor of

General Arcadio Maxilom y Molero (November 13, 1862August 10, 1924) was a Filipino teacher and hero of the Philippine
Revolution.

Gen. Maxilom fought side by side with the other Cebuano revolutionaries in the quest for freedom from the hands of the Spaniards.
Eventually, the local insurgency movement gained control of Cebu after the assault at Fort San Pedro. During the revolution of 1898, a
revolutionary government was set up on December 16 of that year by Gen. Arcadio Maxilom, the province's revolutionary head.

After Kilat's betrayal and assassination, Maxilom continued the revolution in Cebu. Under his command, the Katipunan was able to
regroup in the central highlands, which Spanish forces found impenetrable. On December 16, 1898, Maxilom wrote a letter to the
Spanish authorities in Cebu, demanding that the latter surrender. Weary after incessant fighting, the Spaniards quickly responded,
asking Maxilom for two to three days to leave the province. By Christmas Eve, the Spaniards have left, leaving behind only
three Catholic clerics.

Little did the Cebuanos, indeed, all Filipinos, know that their newfound liberty would be short-lived, Spain having already been forced
to sell the fate of their former subjects to the United States for twenty million dollars

Maxilom is best remembered for stubbornly refusing to surrender to the American occupying forces even as his fellow revolutionaries
in Manila and Cebu were starting to capitulate or collaborate with the new colonial power. He finally surrendered on October 27,
1901.