Colon Street

Colon Street is a historical street in Cebu City. Located in the city's downtown, Colon Street is often referred to as the oldest and the shortest national road in the Philippines. It is named after Cristóbal Colón. Built in 1565, the street traces its origins to Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, the Spanish conquistador who arrived in the Philippines to establish a colony in the 16th century, and eventually developed the street under his leadership.

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, much of this activity has shifted 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.