The Philippines:
A look at the past and the present
by Heidi M. Pascual*
(Above) Fort Santiago's entrance is like a castle's, separated by a moat to protect the fort. (Below) Jose Rizal's monument at Fort Santiago.
(Above) Rizal's footprints from his prison cell in Fort Santiago to Bagumbayan where he was executed by the Spaniards in 1896. (Below) His home in Calamba, Laguna.
*2006 US-SBA Wisconsin Journalist of the Year

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