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TAGBILARAN CITY PHILIPPINES
Photography by larry hirsch Feb 9/2008

Historical events

One of the most important historical events etched in the annals of Philippine history and immortalized in canvass by the famous Filipino painter Juan Luna as one of his masterpieces is the famous Blood Compact between Datu Sikatuna, a local native chieftain, and Captain Miguel López de Legazpi, the intrepid Spanish explorer and colonizer. That historic event took place in the unpretentious coast of Bool, now a district of Tagbilaran, on March 16, 1565, a day after Legazpi and his crew of conquistadores on four ships were drifted into the shore.