TY - BOOK AU - Mojares, Resil B. TI - Casa Gorordo in Cebu: urban residence in a Philippine province, 1860-1920 AV - DS 688.C4 .M65 1983 PY - 1983/// CY - Cebu City, Philippines PB - Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. KW - ARCHITECTURE, DOMESTIC -- PHILIPPINES -- CEBU CITY -- HISTORY N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Rise of urban Cebu -- Urban residence in Cebu -- The Gorordo residence -- The Residential complex in the Philippines N2 - The historical importance of Cebu has long been acknowledged. It was a major entrepot trade in pre-Hispanic times, a way-station of the historic Magellan and Legazpi expeditions, the initial base of the Spanish colonization and Christianization of the islands, and the site of the first permanent European settlement in Asia. It was - and still is - a premier Philippine settlement ER -