Colón street - Wikipedia Colón street Colon Street, Cebu City. May 2011. Colon Street is a historical street in downtown Cebu City that is often called the oldest and the shortest national road in the Philippines. It is named after Cristóbal Colón ( Christopher Columbus ). It traces its origins to the town plan by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, the Spanish conquistador who arrived in the Philippines to establish a colony in 1565. Colon, crowded and a bit run - down now, was the site of fashionable shops, offices, and movie houses. It was once the heart of Cebu City 's shopping and business activity, but in recent years ( specifically during the early 1990s ), much of this activity has shifted inland to the more modern, bigger and diverse commercial and business districts now spread in almost all of the urban areas of the city in what was considered residential and leisure settlements. Colon Street historical marker in Filipino ( left ) and Cebuano ( right ) In 2006 the Cebu City Council proposed a plan to close parts of Colon street from vehicular traffic and convert it to a tourism zone. However, this was met with much opposition from businessmen and motorists due to concerns regarding security and parking spaces. See also Calle Escolta Calle Real References Jump up ^ Cebu City : Colon and the Parian Archived 2007 - 03 - 14 at the Wayback Machine... Accessed March 7, 2007 Jump up ^ Colon Street eyed as special tourism zone - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos. Accessed March 8, 2007 Jump up ^ Closing Colon a big challenge - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos. Accessed March 8, 2007 Coordinates : 10 ° 17 ′ 48.28 '' N 123 ° 53 ′ 56.45 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 10.2967444 ° N 123.8990139 ° E ﻿ / 10.2967444 ; 123.8990139 This article about a location in Central Visayas region of the Philippines is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article related to a road in Asia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colon_Street&oldid=808946302 '' Categories : Streets in Cebu Central Visayas geography stubs Asia road stubs Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from December 2016 Coordinates on Wikidata All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Cebuano Español Tagalog Edit links This page was last edited on 6 November 2017, at 05 : 27. About Wikipedia

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