After he was punished to banished from Manila he was sent to Dapitan as an exile.
After Rizal was implicated in the activities of the nascent rebellion and in July 1892, thereby the Spanish Colonial Government decided to deport him to remote of Dapitan in the province of Zamboanga, a peninsula of Mindanao. which was under the missionary jurisdiction of the Jesuits, from 1892 to 1896. This four-year inter regnum in his life was tediously unexciting, but was abundantly fruitful with varied achievements. He practiced medicine, pursued scientific studies, continued his artistic and literary works, widened his knowledge of languages, established a school for boys, promoted community development projects, invented a wooden machine for making bricks, and engaged in farming and commerce. Despite his multifurious activities, he kept an extensive correspondence with his family, relatives, fellow reformists, and eminent scientists and scholars of Europe, including Blumentritt, Reinhold Rost, A. B. Meyer, W. Joest of Berlin, S. Knuttle of Stuttgart, and N.M. Keihl of Prague.
Monument Marker
“Mi Retiro” Rock overlooking the sea shore
The rock got its name from Rizal’s poem “Mi Retiro” as it was while sitting on it that he wrote the first few stanzas of the poem; also known as “Lovers Rock” since Rizal and Josephine Bracken has spent many romantic moments on it.
Rzal’s pants
Rizal’s Vest