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Santa is a municipality in the central part of Ilocos Sur province in the Philippines. Due to Santa's natural setting (the ridge of Mount Tetas de Santa in the east;〔("Mount Tetas de Santa" ). Google Maps. Retrieved on 2012-03-26.〕 the winding Abra River and delta in the north and NW of Santa; and the South China Sea to the west), then Governor-General of the Philippines Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. on his visit in 1925 exclaimed: “The mountain in the east, the winding roping river in the north, and the immense sea in the west make Santa a poetic town.”〔 == Etymology == These are the probable origins of the municipality's name. # A popular lore tells us that when the scribe of the Spanish explorers was naming the places where they already established settlements, the scribe had a difficult time of thinking of a Catholic Saint's name of saints to name the place (Santa Catalina, Santa Lucia, and Santa Maria were already taken), so the town was simply named "Santa." (Some versions of the story say that the scribe fell asleep or was drunk when he was writing a name for the town and just wrote "Santa".) # The municipality of Santa was formerly called ''Santa Catalina de Alexandria, Virgen y Martir'', after the town's patron saint Saint Catherine of Alexandria. According to folk stories, after the devastation of the town by the first flood in 1852 (Layos Bungsot), the name was shortened to ''Santa Catalina de Alexandria''. The present name of Santa came to be, after the second flood of 1905 (Layos Nawnaw). It was believed that by changing the name after the disasters would save the town from further devastation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Santa, Ilocos Sur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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