Jose Rizal Execution Site (Manila)

Obscured by Jose Rizal's national monument in Luneta is a nearby wooded site where he was executed by the Spanish colonial government on 30 December 1896. He was then secretly buried in an unmarked grave at the Paco Cemetery. In 1898, his remains were exhumed and brought to the Rizal house in Binondo and placed in an urn during which a relative retrieved a vertabra with a lodged bullet that is now on display at Fort Santiago. The remains were then displayed and honored at the Marble Hall of the Ayutamiento before finally being interred in the Rizal monument that was designed by Swiss sculptor Richard Kissling.

Olympus Camedia (May 2006, International Conference on RH Management). Slightly improved with Picasa.