Category: Landmarks

 

SHRINE OF VALOR IN MT. SAMAT

Brgy. Diwa, Pilar, Bataan

   Bataan rises tall and proud, with the monuments built to honor the gallantry of the Filipinos who fought during World War II. The sentinel of Bataan- an awesome memorial to history: the SHRINE OF VALOR IN MT. SAMAT.

   The “Dambana ng Kagitingan” or the Shrine of Valor, lies in an area approximately 73, 665 hectares. It was completed and inaugurated in 1970, consisting of a Colonnade and the huge Memorial Cross. Then President Ferdinand Marcos conceived of the Dambana ng Kagitingan as a fitting memorial to the heroic struggle and sacrifices of the Filipinos who fought and died in that historic bastion of freedom.

(Diwa, Pilar, Bataan)

   A stride this point on which was located the vital North-South Trail 4, was positioned the 23D Infantry Regiment which held the center of the 21st Division (PA), subjected to artillery and serial bombardment in the morning of Good Friday, 3 April, its outpost line of resistance North of Tiawir River collapsed.

(Nagwaling, Pilar, Bataan)

   South of this point is Barrio Capot and Capot Hill on whose Southern slopes was organized a portion of the line of Sector C, in which was located the Terminus of the vital North-South Trail 2 and Capot Hill beginning 27 January 1942.

(Capitol Compound, Balanga City)

A marker was built in honor to the province’s son Don Tomas – ” The Nightingale of Filipino Eloquence.”

                  (Panilao, Pilar, Bataan) A symbol of the Filipino courage and gallantry

(Capitol Compound, Balanga City)    Sealed in blood the permanent ties of friendship and cooperation between Philippines and the United

(Town Plaza,Abucay) 

   Built by Father Geronimo de Belen in the early 1600’s. It was burned in 1870 and rebuilt by Father Jose Diego Pelaez. The Spiritual Ministration of Abucay was entrusted to the Dominicans in 1588.  A fierce battle between the Dutch and the Pampango Defenders was fought in this court on June 23, 1647.  Nearly two hundred Pampangos were put to death and forty others together with the Spanish Alcalde Mayor of Pampanga, Don Antonio de Cabrera, Father Geronimo Sotomayor and Father Tomas Ramos were taken to Batavia on June 23, 1647.

  (Mabatang Plaza,Abucay)     This monument was built in Memory of the first Filipino printer.  It was in   Abucay

(Town Plaza, Hermosa) 

   The Commemorative Marker and the Km. 62 Death March Marker is located in front of the Hermosa Catholic Church, a war memorial structure made of marble, constructed to commemorate our war heroes.

Location: Hermosa, Bataan

Description: 

   The little Mountainous Peninsula of Bataan saved Democracy and the whole world from the evil hands of the devil.