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Calamba City is best known as the birth place of the most famous of all Philippine Heroes Dr. Jose Rizal!
Dr Jose Rizal and his dog
Just beside Calamba City’s main church, the St John The Baptist Church, is the birthplace of Jose Rizal, the ancestral house was restored and was converted into the Rizal Shrine and Museum dedicated to the national hero’s life and works. The whole compound has a very spacious ground where a replica of a typical bahay kubo stood together with a sculpture of little Jose and his dog gazing at the house. There is
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