Homage of the Filipino People to the Heroes of '96

Erected in 1911, this memorial sculpture honors the fighters of the Philippine Revolution of 1896, the armed uprising that began the process of ending more than three centuries of Spanish colonial rule. It was commissioned in the early American colonial period, when the Philippines formally commemorated its own revolutionary generation — a historically layered act of remembrance under a new foreign administration. The monument stands as a tangible marker of the Katipunan movement and the broader struggle for Philippine independence, offering visitors a concrete anchor point for understanding the country's national founding narrative.