Galeón Andalucía- a replica of the Spanish Galleons of old – visits Maasin City, Southern Leyte as part of the 1st Dia de Galeon Festival in the Phillippines.
It is a life-size replica of the Spanish galleons which plied the trade routes between Spanish, Mexican and Philippine ports established in the 17th century.
The body of Galeón Andalucía is a 40-meter fiberglass monohull covered with iroko and pine wood – a great naval engineering challenge in design and technology.
The galleon measures 55 meters long, 10.10 meters wide, with a height reaching 40 meters. She has 4 masts and 7 sails (930 sq. m. total sail area) and has a total crew of 40.
Galeón Andalucía has 6 decks, noble area (4 cabins, bathroom, Admiral’s room and a balcony) and personnel areas (kitchen, holds, crew members quarters) and function areas.
Constructed by the Fundacion Nao Victoria of Seville, Spain, Galeón Andalucía is on a round-the-world trip primarily for science-based research as well as for trade & economic, historical, cultural and tourism promotional objectives.
It left Spain on on March 1, 2010 and has called on the main ports of European countries in the Mediterranean Sea (Spain, Malta, Israel), Red Sea (Egypt), Indian Ocean (Sri Lanka) and China Sea (Shanghai, Hong Kong).
In the Philippines, it first visited Manila, then Cebu, Bohol and Maasin.
It dropped anchor at the Port of Maasin November 2 and departed November 7 for Singapore, after a brief 3-hour stop-over at nearby historic Limasawa Island.
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Excellent pictures, I wish I were in Maasin to see this ship. Thanks for sharing !!
Great shots inside! I understand a lot of visitors in Manila did not get a chance to board the galleon – lucky you!
Wow, beautiful pics!
Can’t do that with just any camera or any photographer either.
Looks like I missed it. I didn’t know it was in Cebu.
Yes, I saw an outside picture from Bobby Wong while docked in Manila and none inside. At least it was daylight. It is a time-travel. Nice pictures. Thank you. I am glad you were able to board the galleon and share the pictures with us
Sir Gerry, I so love your picture of Galeon Andalucia. You as a travel photographer give justice to how magnificent and historic the Spanish galleon is. I love the background. It feels like it landed in a beautiful paradise… so melancholic yet charismatic! Keep it up!
Greetings again Gerry! Thanks so very much for your excellent photographs both interior and exterior of Galeon Andalusia.
She reminded us – lifetime history students and writers – how Magellan and his remaining 3 (originally 5 of them) sailing ships, similar to Andalucia, from Spain with about 160 explorers-circumnavigators that made landfall in Homonhon, Limasawa, Cebu island and anchored near Mactan …
The rest is world history!
schön , fantastic greetings from Switzerland
Great replica in fiberglass & classic wood furnishings & basic accessory trimmings. There’s still a touch of modernism in medium but a superb face-off in a functional object intricately done of what it really was before. Then an awesome setting capturing the galleon era of trades & the Spanish viral influences that went through our veins. Quite remarkable in fusion of cultures that oftentimes are seen in the classy elitist manners & conservatism of faith. This is obviously a promotional take-off for tourism & historical retrospectives. Great show for Galeon Andalucia… titanic aura.
Another brilliant angle shoots by Gerry, you can almost feel the strangeness we haven’t experienced & only historical visuals & memoirs give us reasons to believe the great scenery & evolution it stretches from there. Impressive work by Gerry.