"The Imagination peoples the air" is a phrase plucked from the twilight of Sisa’s sanity in the Noli Me Tangere. It was not the obvious, nor the most popular choice for the theme, but it is the ...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The National Parks Development Committee (NPDC) and the Department of Tourism invite the public to commemorate the 164th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal on June 19 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Rizal Monument and the Musical Dancing Fountain in Rizal Park will be illuminated in blue and yellow—colors of the European flag—on Sunday evening to mark the ...

The 128th anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Jose Rizal was simultaneously observed at the Rizal National Monument at the Rizal Park in Manila, led by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.; the Rizal ...

In Dapitan, using money he had won from a lottery, Rizal bought a 16-hectare lot in coastal Talisay where he opened a school, researched the local wildlife, and served as the town doctor.

To jumpstart the effort, the Dapitan City local government convened a national arnis competition that opened on Wednesday, in time for Rizal’s birth anniversary.

The Rizal Monument and Musical Dancing Fountain in Rizal Park lit up the colors of blue and yellow in celebration of the founding of European Union.

Dapitan City, Philippines – December 30, 2023 – In a historic first in Dapitan City, the commemoration of the 127th anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal’s martyrdom was graced by the presence of a living ...

Rizal wanted to shorten his daily commute on foot from his farm to the town where he reported to the local Spanish commander and attended to his patients. The bike never came, and Rizal never did ...

Rizal Monument (Ali Vicoy) Campus journalist Mark Romero ... He returned to the Philippines in 1892 but was exiled to Dapitan by Spanish authorities. He was convicted of sedition and was executed on ...

Today, the Philippines marks the 127th anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Jose Rizal, an advocate of reform but not revolution, who was shot by a firing squad for sedition, conspiracy, and rebellion.

ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE, Philippines – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) gifted historic Dapitan a 3D replica of the Jose Rizal: The Filipino Scientist Monument as it marked its 59th ...