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A 13.7-metre memorial to Andres Bonifacio, who founded the Katipunan and led the revolt against Spain. It stands on the roundabout where EDSA, MacArthur Highway, Samson Road and Rizal Avenue Extension meet, and the whole area around it is called …
The place where the highest commander of the Japanese Imperial Army surrendered. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, also called the Tiger of Malaya, gave himself up to Filipino and American forces on 2 September 1945. The old home economics building of Kiangan …
A memorial on the site of Camp Pangatian, a military training camp of twenty years that the Japanese army turned into a prison camp for Allied captives. In January 1945 American forces and Filipino guerrillas raided the camp and freed …
A statue of Jose Rizal 6.7 metres tall, at the centre of The Plaza, a park of 6.7 hectares across from the Calamba City Hall complex on Bacnotan Road. Jonas Roces sculpted it, and President Benigno Aquino III unveiled it …
A national shrine and park on Pinaglabanan Street, for the Katipuneros who laid siege to the Almacen de Polvorin, a Spanish colonial armoury. That fight was the first battle of the Philippine Revolution against Spain. The park went up in …
The first monument built to honour José Rizal, and the oldest one of its kind that survives in the country. It is a three-tiered stone pylon, a square base carrying a triangle in two stages. Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Sanz designed …
A stone arch that the American colonial government built in 1910 to mark the border between the provinces of Bulacan and Rizal. After Malabon and Valenzuela joined Metropolitan Manila in 1975, the arch became the line between the two towns, …
The mountain pass where Filipino soldiers beat the Imperial Japanese Army, kept now as a protected area and a war memorial. Troops of the United States Army Forces in the Philippines Northern Luzon won the Battle of Bessang Pass on …