Monday, June 19, 2017

Smallest Plaza in the World for a Great Man - Dr Jose P Rizal

Happy 156th birthday to our national hero!
June 19, 2017
Dr Abe V Rotor
A rare photograph of Rizal in Europe in a fencing outfit. (Internet)

 


Jose Rizal monument towers over the “world’s smallest plaza,” 

at a crossroad in Guimaras Island, photos by AVR


                       This one for the Book of Guinness,
     Smallest Plaza means big,
big to a remote tiny island,
     to simple folks and toiling breed.  

It's for being remembered here, 
     the proof of greatness indeed;
more than marble and pylons high,

   our great hero is revered. ~

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