Rizal Park is a 58 hectare park located in the heart of Manila. Precisely on Lunete, Roxas Boulevard. This park is very famous and favorite place to hangout for Manila residents, because there are many interesting things that we can see in Rizal Park
The first is the Jose Rizal Monument. The Jose Rizal Monument is a monument built in 1908 to commemorate the heroic services of Dr. Jose Rizal, a supreme Philippine national hero who died at the end of a firing squad from the Spanish Empire for opposing Spanish colonization of the Philippines.
In front of the monument there is also a flagpole which is considered as the highest flagpole in the Philippines. Right opposite the Jose Rizal Monument there is a small monument with a picture of a map of the Philippines which is the zero kilometer point of Manila and behind it there is a monument with a round clock on top. The monument is the Centennial Memorial Clock Monument, a monument built to commemorate 100 years of Philippine independence. Behind the Jose Rizal Monument there is a water pool decorated with a fountain. At night, this fountain is also decorated with various lights which beautify the view.
On the side of the pool there are rows of half-body statues which are statues of national heroes in the Philippines. On the other side there is also an open air auditorium which often shows various performances. Then there is a Japanese-style garden, a Chinese-style garden, an orchid garden and a butterfly house.
At the back of the park, separated by Jalan Maria Orosa, there is a large statue which is the Lapu-Lapu Monument or Sentinel of Freedom, which was a gift from the Korean government. Lapu-Lapu himself was the first Filipino national hero who opposed Spanish colonial influence. In 1521, he and the people of Mactan Island, armed with spears and machetes, fought against the Spanish and succeeded in killing Captain Ferdinand Magellan. On the right and left sides of the Lapu-Lapu Monument there are also two museums, namely the National Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Anthropology and not far from there is also the National Library of the Philippines building. Rizal Park is really complete.
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