Rizal in

Barcelona
Location
Barcelona - northeastern Spain, located 90
miles (150 km) south of the French
border.

Area: 101.9 km²

Elevation: 12 m

 ”Barcelona coffee shops are helping shape

the city's growing specialty”
Trivia: Barcelona was offered
the Eiffel Tower before Paris
Rizal in Barcelona
- June 16 1882

Rizal arrived at Barcelona and Boarded in the

Fonda De España

Rizal was welcome by the Filipinos in Barcelona,

most of who were his former classmates at
Ateneo Municipal.

They had a welcome party at favourite coffee

house at Plaza de Cataluña.
Montjuic Castle

Fort Santiago
Montjuic Castle
A room in a military fortress in Spain where
Philippine national hero José Rizal was
once imprisoned by Spanish authorities is
now a place which honors his name and
memory – the “Sala José Rizal" room at
the Montjuic Castle in Barcelona, Spain.
Ela Amor Patrio
Ela Amor Patrio
• June 1882 “Love of Country”

• El Amor Patrio (Love of Country) was penned

in the first months he was overseas in 1882.

• 20 August 1882 It appeared in Diariong

Filipino in Manila under the pseudonym
Laong Laan.

• It was his first published work, and in many

ways, spelled out what he hoped and prayed
for what would be the Philippines.