Jose Rizal's Dapitan

I visited Dapitan last weekend and immensely enjoyed the place and its people.

I suggest you read Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere before going to Dapitan or read the English translation called "Social Cancer". You'll be more than ready to appreciate the person that is Rizal and marvel at what he has done for Dapitan.

Dapitan in Zamboanga del Norte is a charming, bucolic town at the northern tip of Mindanao.  It is historically significant as being the place where the national hero, Jose Rizal was exiled in 1892 by the Spaniard. There he built a school, a hospital and a water supply system. He taught and engaged in farming and horticulture.

Near the end of his exile he met and courted the stepdaughter of a patient, an Irishwoman named Josephine Bracken. He was unable to obtain an ecclesiastical marriage. He nonetheless considered Josephine to be his wife

Note that the frist photo was taken along Sunset Boulevard, across Fantasyland, a theme park similar to Enchanted Kingdom.  The second photo was taken at the Rizal Shrine, a pocket forest.