Jose Rizal Memorial Protected Landscape (Rizal Shrine) Review

Get an intimate look at the life of Dr. Jose Rizal during his years in exile at Dapitan. The José Rizal Memorial Protected Landscape enshrines the farm site where the Filipino National Hero spent his years on exile, when he was sentenced to stay in Dapitan from 1892 to 1896 after being accused of sedition and plotting the Philippine revolution in Manila by the Spanish colonial authorities government. It sits on a green landscape facing Dapitan Bay, and initially covered 10 hectares when it was established in 1940 as the Rizal National Park. In 2000, it was expanded to 439 hectares and declared a protected landscape under the National Integrated Protected Areas System through Proclamation No. 279.