This place used to be a park, a freedom park no less, where people could meet and assemble without fear of dispersion or warrantless arrests (so the old-timers who grew old in the shadow of its history say). The festive atmosphere of Cebu has kept the cutflower industry a timeless business for nearly all stallholders. Most of the business owners trace their history of selling flowers 20 to 25 years back when they were l chased by traffic officers for setting up makeshift stalls.
“The good thing about the flower business is that it never goes out of style. Cebuanos love celebrations and flowers are common fixtures during a celebration
Today, it is a sprawling city landmark, of fair trade shops in the traditional sense of the word. Aside from the market of beautiful cutflowers and other ornaments it also offers for handcrafts from Bicol, or handbags from Leyte, carvings from Mindoro, or just about any Philippine native product from raw materials that meets your fancy without the exorbitant add-on prices by (super)mall traders and middlemen, come to Freedom Park.
