Beyond the Classroom

In 1998, Hibiya Park in Tokyo City installed a bronze bust of Rizal. The statue is located where the hero remained for 45 days before embarking on his journey to Europe. Rizal immersed himself in Japanese culture throughout his visit, according to historians. He studied the culture, appreciated the arts, and engaged with the locals. Rizal, unsurprisingly, found love in the country. Seiko Usui was the personification of everything the hero admired about Japan.

In Madrid, Spain, one of the most famous Rizal memorials may be found. After finishing medical school at the University of Santo Tomas, Rizal settled in this city for over a decade. The city commissioned Filipino sculptor Florante Caedo to create an exquisite bronze statue of Rizal to honor the life of our national hero.

National hero Jose Rizal painted a backdrop for the church altar during his exile from July 17, 1892 to July 31, 1896, inspired by a church in Barcelona. The picture, however, was later destroyed by fire. A monument near the entryway also marks the spot where Rizal used to stand every Sunday while he heard Mass. Due to his excommunication from the Catholic Church, he was unable to approach the altar during Mass.

Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, three Roman Catholic priests killed by Spanish colonial authorities in 1872 for supposed insurrection, are buried at the park. Following his execution at Luneta earlier that year for allegedly masterminding the Philippine Revolution, Rizal was buried at Paco Park on December 30, 1896. To prevent his body from being used as a rallying point by Filipino rebels, he was buried in an unmarked grave.

The Rizal Shrine, also known as the Museo ni José Rizal Fort Santiago, is a museum dedicated to José Rizal's lifework and is located on Santa Clara Street in Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines. During Spain's colonization of the islands, Fort Santiago operated as a barracks for Spanish artillery soldiers. The museum is housed in the same structure where Rizal spent his final night and hid his famous poem Mi ltimo adiós in an oil lamp that was eventually presented to his sister, Trinidad.

When Rizal was exiled to Dapitan, the Spanish commandant was Captain Ricardo Carnicero. On the 26th of August, 1892, Rizal wrote a poem called " A Don Ricardo Carnicero" in honor of the commandant's birthday. Rizal momentarily resided in the commandant's residence in Calle Real. This is where he resided in his time with Rizal.

The rock was named after Rizal's poem "Mi Retiro" because he wrote the first few stanzas of the poem while sitting on it; it is also known as "Lover's Rock" because Rizal and Josephine Bracken spent many Romantic moments on it.

Water System of Talisay. Jose Rizal created this water system with the help of his students in 1895 to provide enough and clean water for his Dapitan home and farm.

Rizal's students are housed in Casa Cuadrada (square house). For his students, the area beneath the house acted as a workshop. Cuadrada House. Casa Redonda, Rizal's clinic, was a separate house with eight sides.

Casa Redonda is an octagonal house that some of Rizal's students utilized as a dormitory. This was then converted into a clinic.

José Rizal was born in a two-story Spanish colonial mansion in Calamba, Laguna, on June 19, 1861. Rizal's original home was destroyed during WWII, but it was rebuilt on the same spot on June 19, 1950. Visitors can freely tour the shrine because Rizal's authentic items have been preserved.

is the site of the first and oldest monument erected in honor of Rizal (though he never set foot in the town) in the country (antedating, by 14 years, the more famous one built in Luneta in 1912) and in the world. Made by Colonel Antonio Sanz.