Qualla: Jose Rizal's Farm https://qualla.com/jose-rizal-s-farm en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Jose Rizal's Farm https://qualla.com/jose-rizal-s-farm Jose Rizal's Farm: Introduction https://qualla.com/jose-rizal-s-farm/ The transaction sounds like the premise of a folk tale: a doctor cures a man's eyesight, the grateful patient offers forty hectares of farmland, and the doctor insists on paying for it anyway -- with money he won in a lottery. But this is documented history. The doctor was Jose Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, and the farm he acquired in Katipunan, Zamboanga del Norte, during his years of exile from 1892 to 1896, stands today as a designated historic site. It is a quieter monument than the grand shrines in Manila and Dapitan, but in some ways it reveals more about the man -- not the martyr or the revolutionary, but the farmer, the scientist, and the neighbor.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/x/8/jose-rizal-s-farm-wp/w9x8-jose-rizals-farm-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jose Rizal's Farm: The Exile Who Planted Trees https://qualla.com/jose-rizal-s-farm/ When the Spanish colonial government banished Rizal to Dapitan in Mindanao in 1892, they intended to neutralize a threat. Rizal had been accused of sedition and of plotting revolution in Manila, and exile to the southern Philippines was meant to silence him. Instead, he built a l...

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