RIZAL MID

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  • Reason for Rizal's First Travel
    • Prepare himself in liberating the Filipinos from Spain
    • Observe and study the European culture
    • Expand his knowledge and wisdom abroad
  • Rizal's First Travel
    1. Calamba to Barcelona
    2. Singapore
    3. Punta de Gales
    4. Colombo
    5. Aden
    6. Suez Canal
    7. Port Said
    8. Naples
    9. Marseilles
    10. Barcelona
    11. Madrid
  • 1st Homecoming
    • Rizal restored his mother's eyesight
    • Rizal was dubbed as "German doctor" or "Doctor Uliman"
    • Rizal was summoned by Governor General Emilio Terrero due to allegations about his novel Noli
    • Rizal was assigned a bodyguard to protect him from adversaries
    • Rizal assisted in collecting information on Dominican hacienda management
  • 2nd Travel
    1. Hong Kong
    2. Japan
    3. Sail to the West
    4. Great Britain
    5. Paris
    6. Spain
  • The main reason Rizal left was that he wanted to prepare himself in liberating the Filipinos from Spain
  • Rizal was 21 years old when he left
  • Rizal's parents had no idea of his departure and only Paciano, Saturnina, Uncle Antonio, and a few friends knew
  • Antonio Rivera got Rizal a passport under the name "Jose Mercado"
  • Leonor Rivera, Rizal's girlfriend, was not informed as well
  • Saturnina gave Jose a diamond ring and Paciano gave him a pocket money of 700 pesos
  • Singapore
    • Rizal visited Raffles Stadium, Botanical Garden, Temples, Market, Schools, and a Protestant church
  • Punta de Gales
    • Rizal considered the place to be boring, lonely, quiet, and sad
  • Aden
    • Rizal described the place as hotter than Manila, and was able to see camels for the first time
  • The Suez Canal was made by Ferdinand De Lesseps
  • Reaching Port Said means you are near to European cities
  • Naples
    • First European place Rizal had visited, Rizal liked the place due to its lively people and beautiful view
  • Marseilles
    • Rizal was able to visit Château d'If which was famous from the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo"
  • Barcelona
    • Initially did not like the place due to it being noisy and the people were unfriendly and not accommodating, but later on liked the city due to its people's openness and liberal mindset with the affairs of the government
  • Rizal was able to meet a former classmate from Ateneo and his other friends from the Philippines in Barcelona
  • Rizal was able to write two articles and essays named "El Amor Patrio: The Love of Country" and "Los Viajes: Travels"
  • Madrid
    • Rizal met and befriended Consuelo Ortiga y Rey, enrolled in Medicine and Philosophy and Letters at Universidad Central de Madrid, informed Paciano of his meeting with other Filipinos
  • A year after the sumptuous feasting, Rizal became penniless due to the economic regression that had affected his family
  • Rizal won a gold medal in spite of not eating breakfast, attended dinner with Juan Luna and Felix Resurrecion Hidalgo and made a controversial liberal speech
  • Rizal's Travels after Madrid
    1. Paris
    2. Heidelberg, Germany
    3. Leipzig
    4. Berlin
    5. Dresden
    6. Leitmeritz, Bohemia
    7. Prague
    8. Vienna
    9. Lintz
    10. Salzburg
    11. Munich
    12. Nuremberg
    13. Ulm
    14. Stuttgart
    15. Baden
    16. Switzerland
    17. Geneva
    18. Italy
  • Rizal was disturbed by how he learned about the exhibition of some Igorots in Madrid as they were exhibited in a manner of mockery
  • Rizal treated Viola as a celebration for his 26th Birthday in Geneva
  • Rome
    • Rizal visited historical places like Amphitheatre and the Roman Forum, and saw famous Edifices like the St. Peter's church in the Vatican city
  • Hong Kong
    • Rizal stayed at Victoria Hotel, visited Macau for two days with Jose Maria Basa, experienced the noisy firecracker-laden Chinese New Year and the marathon lauriat party
  • Japan
    • Lived in the Spanish legation in Tokyo, heard a band that played European music and was astonished to find out that some of its members are Filipinos, became friends with a 23-year old Japanese girl named Seiko Usui (called as O-Sei-San) who would pass by the legation every day
  • San Francisco
    • For a week, the ship's passengers were quarantined due to the Cholera outbreak in the Far East (Reality: wants to question the arrival of the Chinese coolies in the ship)
  • New York
    • On Bedloe Island, he had seen the Statue of Liberty, observed the reality on how the freedom was only for the whites
  • Great Britain
    • Briefly stayed at Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor's house, boarded at the Beckett residence, made friends with Dr. Reinhold Rost and his family, manually copied and annotated Morga's 'Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas', became the honorary president of the patriotic society Asociación La Solidaridad
  • Rizal met Marcelo H. Del Pilar for the first time in Spain, Del Pilar was one of the renowned members of the propaganda movement, along with Graciano Lopez Jaena
  • Rizal onboard the ship 'City of Rome' and sailed to Liverpool
    May 16, 1888
  • Rizal arrived in Liverpool
    May 24, 1888
  • Rizal reached London
    May 25, 1888
  • Rizal briefly stayed at Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor's house

    Boarded at the Beckett residence, was lovingly served by Gertude—the daughter of Rizal's landlord
  • Rizal made friends with Dr. Reinhold Rost and his family, Rost is expert in Malayan language and has a good Filipiniana Library, Rost described Rizal as "a pearl of a man"

    June 1888
  • Rizal's activities in June 1888
    Manually copied and annotated Morga's 'Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas', Became the honorary president of the patriotic society Asociación La Solidaridad (La Solidaridad Association)
  • Rizal had a 10-month stay in London with short visits in Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona