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       Heading off from the rowdy metropolis after a two-hour drive northwest of Cebu, no one would have the slightest idea of the surprise one to unravel in the humble municipality of San Remigio.

     The town has maintained a rustic ambience and its serene shores clad in ivory - white sands stretch long for people to sounder and for nature lovers to lounge around. Beach resorts that abound the municipality fascinate every newcomer in sight.

       Before the colonial regime, local inhabitants named the place Kanhagas which was derived from the same name of the tree that thrive plentiful in the area. A certain Remigio Multon once organized a community group to safeguard the place form the impending attack of the Moro pirates. Kanhagas was later renamed San Remigio with the title San in memory of his valor and heroism. 

        Many townfolks wonder why their annual fiesta will be held on May 15 - 16 wherein they venerate San Juan Nepomuceno and San Isidro Labrador as their patron saints and call their town San Remigio--so they said that San Remigio is a unique name for it does not derive even from its patron saints.

       History reveals that San Remigio was formerly known as "Kanghagas", the name of a tree, which grew abundant in the place. When the Spanish conquistadores came, they identified a town site by clearing the kanghagas trees through self-help labor. It was governed by a captain or gobernadorcillo.

    Lavilles in his book, "Cebu", recounts that Kanghagas was a barangay unit of Punta, a part of the municipality of Bogo. Sometimes in the early 1800, Punta was renamed Punta Isabel, in honor of Queen Isabela II of Spain. This marked the beginning of its social and educational advancement because people from the scattered area learned to settle in a common place.

     Aside from corn, fresh catch fish, sugarcane, banana, rootcrops and vegetables San Remigio also has the other source of income. Like:

San Remigio is one of the major supplier of MANGO (indian, pajo and commercial) in the Province of Cebu or maybe in the country.

• Why LAPYAHAN?

     The Municipality of San REMIGIO celebrates the LAPYAHAN Festival in cognizance of the Town Fiesta. Lapyahan means shoreline, symbolized the arrival of the development and progress in the midst of this proud town after a long wait, when then its a venue of community where posted to guard the town or a stronghold when the Moro depredators were sighted. Laterally LAPYAHAN describes the unique feature of San Remigio for having the longest shoreline in Cebu Province with ala Boracay white beaches enough to taunt foreign and local tourists. 

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