CEBU CITY — For more than a century, Colon Street in this city has been considered as the oldest street in the Philippines, a claim reinforced by official markers and written in school textbooks and postcards.

However, Cebu-based historian Jobers Reyes Bersales said this widely accepted narrative is incorrect.

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