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The Rizal Monument is located on a 70 m 2 (750 sq ft) lot, donated by the Madrid city government, [8] at the corner of the Parque de Santander. [9] While the monument is based on the original design of the Manila monument by Swiss sculptor Richard Kissling, the monument's bronze statues were created by Filipino sculptor Florante "Boy" Caedo, with landscaping work done by Spanish architect ...
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (' Events of the Philippine Islands ') is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. [1] It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronymo Balli, in ...
Del Pilar urged Rizal to write a letter in Tagalog to "las muchachas de Malolos," adding that it would be "a help for our champions [campoenes] there and in Manila." [30] [36] At the time, Rizal was well known in the Philippines for his anti-clerical 1887 novel Noli Me Tángere. [37]
[8] Primary sources for the history of Rajah Kalamayin's Namayan, further upriver, include artifacts dug up from archaeological digs (the earliest of which was Robert Fox’s [15] work for the National Museum in 1977) and Spanish colonial records (most notably those compiled by the 19th century Franciscan Historian Fray Felix Huerta).
A la juventud filipina (English Translation: To The Philippine Youth) is a poem written in Spanish by Filipino writer and patriot José Rizal, first presented in 1879 in Manila, while he was studying at the University of Santo Tomas.
Other crew were made up of deportees and criminals from Spain and the colonies. Many criminals were sentenced to serve as crew on royal ships. Less than a third of the crew was Spanish and they usually held key positions aboard the galleon. [41] At port, goods were unloaded by dockworkers, and food was often supplied locally.
The original sculpture is now displayed at the Rizal Shrine Museum at Fort Santiago in Intramuros, Manila. [2] A large replica, made of concrete, stands in front of the Fernando Calderón Hall, which houses the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, inside the University of the Philippines Manila campus in Ermita, Manila.
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821.