Visayas Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
one of the three island groups of the Philippines
About Visayas
The history goes back to prehistoric times; the largest migration was ofAustronesianpeople, who are the ancestors of most modern Filipinos and related peoples, such as Indonesians, Malaysians, Micronesians and Polynesians. There are several different theories which differ on the details, but all agree that the migration took place several thousand years BCE. The Portuguese adventurerFerdinand Magellanled a Spanish expedition that made the first circumnavigation of the earth in the 1520s, and visited the Visayas.LimasawainSouthern Leyte, is where the first Christian mass in the Philippines was held. Magellan himself did not complete the trip; he was killed while fighting a Visayan warrior-ruler named Lapu-Lapu onMactan Island,Cebu Province.
Visayas Travel Guide Sections
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