Bonifacio Monument

Bonifacio Monument, which won first prize in a contest sponsored by the National Museum in
1930, is a group sculpture of numerous figures massed around a central obelisk. The principal
figure is Andres Bonifacio, leader of the 1896 Philippine Revolution. Behind him and beneath
the flag stands Emilio Jacinto. On both sides the Katipunero brandish their bolo in a call to arms.
Behind the figure of Bonifacio, at the opposite side of the obelisk, are the hooded figures of the
three martyred priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, whose execution gave
birth to nationalism. These are followed in sequence by the initiation rites into the revolutionary
secret society of the Katipunan, a dying woman with an infant reaching for her breast, and the
man with clenched fist upraised beside the Katipunero figure, which completes the movement
back to Bonifacio.
The monument is located in South Caloocan at a roundabout crossing of four roads, namely
Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), the MacArthur Highway, the Samson Road, and Rizal
Avenue Extension (Avenida Rizal), the old road leading to Manila.
The Bonifacio Monument was both valedictory of the Revolution of 1896 and pledge to future
generations that independence would one day be restored