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"Rizal Park Bagumbayan"

This area we know today as Rizal Park, that which began as barely habitable marshland, then became a hub of the Spanish leisure class. The soft ground and the esteros were filled to create a uniform field that stretched from the Walled City to surrounding arrabals or suburbs—particularly to Ermita, originally christened Bagumbayan or the “new village.”

It was officially named Rizal Park, after the name of Dr. Jose Rizal, our national hero, as an honor and tribute to him.

is located at the northern end of Roxas Boulevard in Manila