Tanay offers a mix of cool-weather stops, family-friendly attractions, and local flavors for those looking for a ...

Retracing Rizal’s footsteps in Madrid yet again, I do so now imagining him in Madrid in 2025. Would he be posting on Facebook, Instagram, or X? Or would he prefer writing long-form on a blog or ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – More than 130 years ago, Dr. Jose Rizal came to several cities in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire to meet with his close confidant, Austrian ethnographer Ferdinand ...

For more than a century now, Filipinos have been told of the life of Jose Rizal, especially his last 24 hours, his execution and his last poem, “Mi Ultimo Adios.” Late afternoon the day before his ...

To find Jose Rizal in Europe has been a fervent dream of my husband, a retired University of the Philippines professor. For more than two decades, he fervently taught the Rizal course required by law ...

Urban legends are like amoeba: They divide and multiply. The urban legend about Rizal being the father of Adolf Hitler, for example, is easily dispatched by counting back nine months, from April 20, ...

December 30 of this year will be the 125th anniversary of the execution of Filipino nationalist, writer, revolutionary and National Hero Jose P. Rizal. Almost every city or town plaza here in the ...

ELEVEN years after the execution of José Rizal, Wenceslao Retana, a Spanish Filipinista who worked for the colonial government between 1880 and 1886, published the first biography of Rizal. This ...

The biographies of Jose Rizal that I discuss in today’s column are book-length works on Rizal’s life in full, including his importance and works. Noteworthy biographies by Filipino authors. Among the ...

It was my grandfather who introduced me to Jose Rizal when I was maybe six or seven years old. By then, I had learned to read and write. I knew that Baac, that is what we called him, could also write, ...

Filipinos continue to honor the life and works of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, whose words had outlasted his own life, influencing many generations following his death in 1896. As we commemorate the 158th birth ...

BERLIN, Germany – Jose Rizal, the Philippines’ revered national hero, always had a soft spot for Germany. He spent over a year in the country gaining expertise in ophthalmology and engaging in other ...