THE TRAVELS OF

RIZAL

Presented by: Olazo,Christopher A.

MAY 1882
He left the country to pursue further studies abroad.
He enrolled in a course in medicine at the
Universidad Central de Madrid in Spain.
JUNE 1883
He traveled to France to observe how medicine was being practiced there.

After his three-month sojourn in France, Rizal returned to Madrid

and thought about publishing a book that exposed the colonial
relationship of Spain and the Philippines. This idea was realized
in March 1887, with the publication of the novel Noli Me Tangere
in Germany.
AUGUST
Rizal returned to Manila, after five years in Europe.
1887 His homecoming was met by the friars’ furor over
Noli Me Tangere. The Archbishop of Manila
issued an order banning the possession and reading
of the novel.

Rizal traveled to Macau and Japan before

going to America. Entering
San Francisco, California, in April 1888, he
visited the states of Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
Nebraska, Illinois, and New York. He jotted
down his observations of the landscape in
his diary.
• Rizal arrived in England in May 1888. In August, he was admitted to the British Museum,
where he copied Antonio de Morga’s massive study of the Philippines, Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas, which Rizal later annotated for publication “as a gift to the Filipinos.”

• He also frequently visited Spain, where he met with fellow

Filipino intellectuals like Marcelo H. del Pilar, Mariano Ponce, and Graciano Lopez-Jaena.

MARCH 1891
Rizal finished writing his second novel, El Filibusterismo, in France. He
planned to publish the book in Belgium, but was financially hard up. His brother’s support from
back home was delayed in coming, and he was scrimping on meals and expenses. Finally, in
September 1890, El Filibusterismo was published in Ghent using donations from Rizal’s friends
A rivalry had ensued between Rizal and del Pilar over the
leadership of the
Asociación Hispano Filipino in Spain. Rizal decided to
leave Europe to avoid the worsening rift
between the Rizalistas and Pilaristas, and to help
maintain unity among Filipino expatriates.
After staying for some time in Hong Kong, where he
practiced medicine and planned to build a
“New Calamba” by relocating landless Filipinos to
Borneo, Rizal came home to the Philippines
in June 1892.
Thank you!