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PROFESSOR FERDINAND BLUMENTRIT

ROXAS BLVD, ERMITA, METRO MANILA

STATUE OF BLUMENTRIT

PROF.FERDINAND BLUMENTRIT is also known as best friend of our national

hero but there are some people saying that Rizal and Blumentrit has a relation. He

is also a writer, He wrote expansively about the Philippines even He never visited

the island. Blumentrit is the one who has a greater knowledge about Rizal because

Rizal is always updating him when he did something. He is also a adviser of our

national hero in all aspects. He translated the latter's first book, Noli Me Tangere,

into German and wrote the preface to Rizal's second book, El filibusterismo,

although he was against its publication. These two novels are commentaries

disguised as fiction which angered both the Catholic Church and the Spanish

colonial government, and which eventually led to Rizal's 1896 trial and execution.

Blumentritt was born in Prague(now the Czech Republic, in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire).He is a nephew of the Hungarian German writer Ferenc

Virghalmi. Blumentrit is also a supporter of Rizal. He died at September 20 1913

at an age of 60.

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RIZAL MONUMENT

ROXAS BLVD, ERMITA, METRO MANILA

STATUE OF RIZAL

RIZAL MONUMENT is also called Motto Stella or guiding star. The monument is

designed by Richard Kissling it has a height of 12.7 meter or 42 ft. The perimeter of

the monument is in a continuous ritual guarding by the Philippine Marine Corps

Marine Security and Escort Group. About a 100 m (330 ft) west of the monument is

the exact location where Rizal was executed represented by life-size dioramas of his

final moments.The mausoleum consists of a standingbronze sculpture of

the martyr, with an obelisk as his backdrop, set on a pedestal upon which his

remains are interred. A plaque on the pedestal front reads: "To the memory of JosRizal, patriot and martyr, executed on Bagumbayan Field December Thirtieth

1896.It took 5 years to complete. It is dedicated to the memory of our national hero,

patriot and martyr. If we can notice Rizal is holding a book. The book represents

the Noli Me tangere and El filibustirismo. It is planed to construct during the

American colonial period of the Philippine in early 20th

century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronzehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze

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NOLI ME TANGERE GARDEN

ROXAS BLVD, ERMITA, METRO MANILA

Noli me tange garden is formally inaugurate and open by the NPDC on June 18,

2011. Formerly called the Rizal Fountain, the Noli Me Tangere Garden main

attraction is the Heidelberg Fountain where Dr. Jose Rizal used to drink from

when he was living in Heidelberg. The event will be a truly auspicious occasion,

since it falls just a day before Rizal's 150th birth anniversary. Tourism officials,

cultural stakeholders and colleagues from the academe, diplomatic corps and press

are invited in that past event. I do not know why they called it the NOLI ME

TANGERE garden, although you see there the bust of Ferdinand Blumentritt and

the Fountain where Rizal supposedly drank from, in that same area is the

Philippine-Canadian Friendship Garden right beside it and the Binhi ng Kalayaansculpture of Ed Castrillo that i find out of place.

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