ARRIVAL SPAIN

1. He first stopped in Barcelona , the capital of the Spanish province,

Cataluña. According to him the People were indifferent and he arrived
during the summer vacation of the students.
a. In this city he found that the people of the city enjoyed freedom and
liberalism.
b. He wrote essays for Diariong Tagalog.
 Amor Patrio ( Love of Country )
 Lost Viajes (Travels)
 Revista De Madrid ( Review of Madrid )

c. He met his classmates from Ateneo at the Plaza de Cataluña.

2. Madrid

A. He enrolled at the Universidad Central De Madrid on November 3,

1882. He enrolled in the Following courses:
 Medicine
 Philosophy and letters

B. He took course at the Academy of San Carlos

 Painting and sculpture
 Languages: French, German and English
C. He took private lessons at the Hall Of Sanz and Carbonell
 Shooting
 Fencing
D. Important people he met :
 Dr. Miguel Morayta, an advocate of freedom and self –
determination. Students from South American Hailed
Dr. Morayta as their champion. He joined his students and other
supporters to this end.

 Don Pablo Ortega y Rey Spanish liberal who use to live in yhe
Philippines
e. Jose Rizal joined the Circulo Hispano Filipino

 It was a social organization where the members talked on the

reforms needed in the Philippines.
 This group was mostly made up elder Filipinos, who were the exiles
of 1872
 It held informal programs which includes poetry reading and
debates.
F. Jose Rizal joined Freemasonry

 He became a member and his masonic name was Dimasalang.

 Freemasonry was an organization outlawed by the Catholic Church because its
belief are contrary to the doctrines of the Church.
 A mason’s view is that knowledge should be achieved by the light of reason
and universal brotherhood of men. Rizal adopted the masonic view.
 Masonry attached the Church because they believed it promoted religious
superstition and obscurantism, hiding truth behind the veil of religion.
g. He was an avid book collector. He scrimped on food and clothes, and
lived in modest accommodations but he bought books.
Important books he collected.
 Uncle Tom’s cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
 Works of Alexander Dumas
 The Wandering Jew written by Eugene Sue
 Lives of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington
to Andrew Johnson
 The Complete Works of Horace (3 volumes )