Starweek: Her Majesty, Mayon

Mayon Volcano is everything a grand dame should be - and then some, Stately, beautiful (her name comes from "magayon," the local word for beautiful), near -perfect - past eruptions have not destroyed her perfect cone - she dominates the skyline of nearby Legaspi City and, in fact the whole of Albay, as she can be seen from nearly every city and town in the province.