Chapter 4

JOSE RIZAL’S

FIRST TRAVEL ABROAD

SPAIN
MAY 03, 1882
Rizal left the Philippines for the first time to
Spain boarded on the Spanish streamer
“Salvadora” using a passport of Jose Mercado.

“Salvadora”
SINGAPORE
MAY 09, 1882
Salvadora docked in Singapore and stayed in
Hotel De La Paz 2 days.

“Hotel De La Paz”
• In Singapore, Rizal transferred to
another ship Djemnah, a French
streamer which left Singapore for
Europe on May 11, 1882.

DJEMNAH
 SRI LANKA
MAY 17, 1882
•Rizal arrived at Punta de Gales to go to Colombo.
Colombo – Sri Lanka now
Punta de Gales – an island in Sri Lanka (instagramable,
quiet, lonely place)

Colombo – Sri Lanka

YEMEN
MAY 27, 1882
•He landed at Aden, Yemen – is a city hotter than Manila
and was amused to see the camel for the first time.
 MARSEILLE
JUNE 02, 1882
•He arrived at the Suez Canal en route to Mar Marseilles
was impressed in beautiful moonlight with remained
him in Calamba and his family.

Suez Canal- Man - made Marvel

connecting the Mediterranean
and Red Sea
ITALY
JUNE 11, 1822
•Rizal disembarked and accompanied by a guide. He
went abroad in the City of Naples, in Italy.
This was the first European ground he set foot on.
SPAIN
JUNE 12, 1882
•Rizal visited the famous chateau d’if where Dantes
hero of the Court Monte Cristo was imprisoned.
•Rizal stayed 2 ½ days.

Chateau d’if Edmond Dantes

Barcelona, Spain
JUNE 16, 1882
•Rizal arrived at Barcelona. Rizal’s first impression of Barcelona the
greatest city of Catalonia in Spain’s second largest city was
unfavorable.
•While he was in Barcelona, he wrote an essay entitled “Amor
Patrio” (Love of Country), LOS VIAJES (Travel), and Revista de
Madrid.

Catalonia in Spain “Amor Patrio”

AUGUST 20, 1882
•His article “Amor Patrio was published in the Diarong Tagalog”,
a Manila newspaper written under the pen name LaongLaan.
•It was published in two texts- Spanish and Tagalog.
•Spanish texts was the one originally written by Rizal in
Barcelona.
•Tagalog texts was translated by Marcelo H. Del Pilar.

Marcelo H. Del Pilar

Madrid, Spain
SEPTEMBER 02, 1882
•Rizal moved to Madrid in order to continue his
medical studies.
•Nov. 03, 1882 Rizal enrolled at the Universidad
Central de Madrid in two courses – Medicine
and Philosophy in Letter.

Universidad Central de Madrid

Life in Madrid
•Rizalstudied painting and sculpture. Took lesson in
French, German, and English under private instructor.
Practical fencing and shooting.

•Rizal joined the Circulo- Hispano Filipino. It is an

association formed by the Filipino Students in Spain
composed both Filipinos and Spaniards.

•Mi Piden Versos (They Ask Me for Verses) upon the

request of the members of this society. Rizal wrote this
poem, which he personally declaimed during the New
Year’s Eve reception of the Madrid’s Filipino held in the
evening of Dec. 31, 1882
March 1883, he joined the Masonic Lodge called ACACIA.
His reason for was to secure Freemasonry’s aid in his fight
in the Philippines.
•Nov. 1883, He transferred to Lodge Solidadirad where he
became Master Mason.
JUNE 1884
Rizal finished his medicine education. He was conferred
the Degree of Licentiate in Medicine. He passed all his
subjects leading to Doctor of Medicine, but he was able to
get his Doctor’s Diploma in 1887 for he wasn’t able to pay
corresponding fees.
1885
He passed the Board Exam for Medicine.

JUNE 1885
Rizal was awarded the Degree of Licentiate in
Philosophy in Letters with the rating of “Excellent”
(Sobresaliente)
Uno. 1 grade
PARIS TO BERLIN
Rizal went to Paris and Germany in order to
Specialized in Ophthalmology. Rizal chose this branch
of Medicine because he wanted to cure his Mother’s
eye ailment.

DR. LOUIS DE WECKER in

FRANCE
He is the leading French
ophthalmologist during the period.
Who found Rizal such a competent
student and make him as his clinical
assistant.
DR. OTTO BECKER in
GERMANY
Distinguished German
Ophthalmologist where Rizal
worked- University Eye Hospital.
NOV. 1886 - In Berlin Germany
Rizal met the following; Dr. Feodor Jagor great
scientist; Dr. Rudolf Virchow known to be the
Father of Modern Pathology.

Dr. Rudolf Virchow

Dr. Feodor Jagor
Rizal’s Reason in Staying Berlin,
Germany
1.To gain knowledge in Ophthalmology.
2.To further his studies of science and
languages.
3.To observe the economy and political
conditions of the German nations.
4.To associates with famous German
scientist and scholars.
•To publish his novel, Noli Me Tangere.
Noli Me Tangere published in Berlin

•The bleak winter of 1886 in Berlin was Rizal’s

darkest winter because no money arrived from
Calamba and he was flat broke. The diamond ring
which his sister gave him was in the pawnshop. It
was memorable in the life of Rizal for two reasons;

1. It was a painful episode for he was hungry, sick

and despondent in a strange city.
2. It bought him great joy after enduring so much
suffering, Noli Me Tangere came off to press in
March, 1887.
 Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s – “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin”
•Inspired Dr. Rizal to prepare a
novel that would depict the
miseries of his people under the
lash of Spanish tyrants.

Maximo Viola
•Rizal’s friend from Bulacan, arrived in Berlin at the
height of Rizal despondency and loaned him the needed
friend to published the novel Noli Me Tangere.
February 21, 1887
•The Noli was finally finished and ready for printing.

Berliner Buchdrucker Action-

Gesselschaft
•A printing shop which charge the lowest rate that is
300 pesos for 2,000 copies of the novel.

March 21, 1887

•The Noli Me Tangere came off the press. The title
“Noli Me Tangere” is a Latin phrase which means
“Touch Me Not”
EUROPE
RIZAL AND VIOLA GRAND TOUR IN EUROPE
(1887)
•May 11, 1887, Rizal and Viola left Berlin by train going to
Dresden, one of the best cities in Germany.
•Prometheus Bound- painting wherein Rizal was deeply
impressed.

Prometheus Bound
•Teschen (now Decin, Czechoslovakia)
•Leitmeritz

Teschen Leitmeritz

Rizal and Viola went to Leitmeritz to meet Professor

Ferdinand Blumentritt– a kind hearted, old Austrian
professor.
•May 20, 1887, Rizal and Viola arrived in
the beautiful city of Vienna, Capital of
Austria; Vienna was truly the “Queen of
DANUBE” Maximo Viola

•Geneva Switzerland – Rizal celebrated his

26th birthday in Geneva with Maximo Viola.

•June 23, 1887 – Viola and Rizal parted

ways Viola returned to Barcelona while
Rizal continued the tour in Italy.
•Rizal in Italy

June 27, 1887, Rizal reached Rome, the eternal city and
also called the “City of the Caesars”. Describing to
Blumentritt the grandeur that was Rome.
Rizal also visited for the first time the Vatican, “City of
the Popes”.

Vatican, “City of the Popes”

(After a week of wonderful sojourn in Rome, Rizal

prepared to return to the Philippines. He had already
written to his father that he was going home.)
THANK YOU!