Dr. Jose Eleazar Reynes Bersales, a Cebu historian and archaeologist, argues that Colon Street, long considered the oldest street in the Philippines, is not historically accurate. He cites the lack of evidence supporting this claim and points to Calle Magallanes as a more likely candidate for the title.
Colon Street is not the oldest street in the Philippines . Dr. Jose Eleazar Reynes Bersales, Cebu historian and archaeologist, pointed out that the belief that Colon Street being the oldest street in the Philippines is “probably by far the oldest fake news in the country today.
So if it is not Colon, where is the oldest street? “If there is a veritable candidate as the oldest street in the Philippines, therefore, it is without doubt Calle Magallanes,” Bersales said in the article.He posited “it is a wonder why even historians of the recent past never questioned how the oldest street in the Philippines can possibly be located about a kilometer inland in a city so famed in Rajah Humabon’s time for its vibrant trading post.
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