we spent our holyweek vacation here..layu kaayu pero rewarding pud inig abot coz of the breathtaking sceneries
here's an info about this 200 hectare park:
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THE owners call it “a legacy to the Filipino people, a place to remember.” At particularly this time of the year, it is also to be a place of prayer, of contemplation, of sacrifice if one wants to go up hill to “Calvary” following the stations of the Cross.
The 200-hectare complex located in Compostela is a project of the family of Norberto Quisumbing, Jr. and the Norkis Group.
Open free to the public daily from about 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
the complex, still a work in progress, has a Boy’s Camp, a Girl’s Camp, the Nativity Cave, a rest area, the Stations of the Cross and a Heroes’ Hill. The latter, about a hectare in size, is the only place that is open only by invitation or by request and in its space is a tribute to the unknown soldiers, the OFWs, the awardees of the Filipino Foundation from 1986-2003. In its anahaw-roofed kiosk are life-size portraits of Philippine presidents and Filipino statesmen. Surrounding the center of the kiosk is a pond full of koi, for “an ecological ambiance.”
The lazy way to get there is by request, because this means park superintendent Rudy V. Enriquez and project engineer Victor Maldo will be around to guide you. One gets to Q Park by going from Cebu City, north to Compostela. Somewhere in Barangay Magay, to one’s left, is a sign that points to Q Park. One enters this road and, after traveling about five kilometers, one sees the entrance of Q Park. It’s a steep, uphill climb to Heroes’ Hill from where Enriquez and Maldo take you around the park in a four-wheel drive golf cart. They take you downhill, pointing out the road up to the Boys and Girls’ camps, and coming to a small, tree-lined clearing we stop. Here, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, Holy Mass will be said at 3 p.m. (except Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday).
This clearing is the base of Calvary Hill where the Stations of the Cross starts. The figures of the stations are shaped in wrought iron at the base of which are readings for meditation. Placed about 50 meters apart, each station is raised from the road and reached by steps. The topmost point of the hill (and Q Park) is where the 12th Station is placed. This time, the crosses (three of them) are unframed and made of what looks like steel, with Jesus’ Cross in gold and the two others in silver.
From there, one gets down again for the 13th and 14th Stations. The last station, Jesus laid in Nicodemus’ tomb, asks one to think of Jesus’ birth in a borrowed cave, His last supper in a borrowed hall and His final resting place in a borrowed tomb—and us, our life in borrowed time. Very near this last station is still another station! An idea of Msgr. Rudy Villanueva, the 15th Station is that of Jesus’ Ressurrection.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb...at.q.park.html
pics to follow =)
Q-PARK, Compostela
Originally Posted by edshark
murag nice lagi dri dah.. pwede post sketch?
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