ALDRIN

With the scenic mountains on one side and the pristine beaches, the Municipality of Alegria offers a picturesque diorama of nature at play. Alegria is characterized by narrow coastlines, limestone mountainsides, and coastal plains. Rolling hills and rugged mountain ranges traverse from boundary to boundary. The coastal lands are not fertile, its soil having been used continuously for hundreds of years. But the valleys of its hinterlands are still productive and continue to grow and produce agricultural food supply both for the people of Alegria and adjacent towns. Alegria was once called “Tubod” after a famous spring that served both its inhabitants. And travelers with its crystalline waters for drinking and other purposes under the shade of the three big Talisay trees, conversely, realized that there already exists a municipality at the Northern part of Cebu bearing the same appellation. Alegria found its way under coincidence, when a group of Spaniards passed by the spring and somehow, overwhelmed by the exuberant scenario of the natives happily playing music as the women did their laundries, uncontrollably shouted “Que Alegre!”, which in the vernacular means “how jovial!”