Jose Rizal is exiled to Dapitan by Spanish authorities. While he attempts to adapt to his surroundings, he helps a few local residents and provides free education to the children.

Dr. Jose Rizal was exiled in Dapitan from 1892-1896. These were his last four years. Dapitan served as his prison cell. He always compared it to “a beautiful cage” where he is imprisoned.

AUTHORITIES have released a yellow-headed water monitor lizard back to its natural habitat in Zamboanga del Norte, the Department of Environment and Natural Res ...

Made of plaster of Paris, it was created during Rizal’s isolation and exile in distant Dapitan in Zamboanga, months before he would meet his martyrdom on Bagumbayan Field or today’s Luneta.

Dapitan is where the National Hero Jose Rizal was exiled from 1892 to 1896. “So, (it’s) also an homage to the Philippines,” she added. After the screenings in the Philippines, the four short ...