Category: Travel

 

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.”