Ambeth R. Ocampo's Blog, page 16

Freud and I in the site of the Hotel Metropole where Rizal stayed in 1887 Hotel was used as Gestapo headquarters and is now replaced by a new building



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Today's #LookingBack by Ambeth Ocampo (March 26, 2025).

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My Inquirer column today on Filipiniana in the Netherlands.



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Last Saturday, in front of the “Hague Hilton” with the GMA7 team that I found camped outside waiting for the breaking news.



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Thanks to Ateneo de Manila University for the honor of being the Senator Gil J. Puyat Professor this year. I hope to live up to it through my continuing research and dissemination of Philippine history to a wider non-academic audience.



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This seems to be a new tourist destination



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I have only seen and handled the two reduced versions of the rare 18thC Murillo-Bagay map of the Philippines separate from the books these were attached to.
All the copies of the Murillo and Dela Concepcion histories I have consulted in Manila and abroad always have the map missing.
I thought I would never see a complete book until I saw both in Brussels yesterday. It was a pleasant surprise.





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Manneken Pis a 17thC bronze statue of a naked boy pissing into a fountain is one of the curious tourist attractions of Brussels. When Freud visited (Top)it was clothed in a medics uniform (Bottom). It reminded me of the Santo Nino in various uniforms, so I suggested to our ambassador that we lobby to have Manneken Pi’s in a barong to celebrate our National Day on June 12



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Sorry for late posting. My column last Wednesday on Rizal in Brussels.



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I have been to Brussels twice before but never got around to trace Rizal's steps in the city. Accompanied by Philippine Ambassador to Belgium Jaime Victor Ledda (Right) who cuts a resemblance to the hero with his overcoat, Freud and I visited the site of the boarding house where Rizal stayed, twice, in the winter of 1890 and again in the spring of 1891 (Left).
From Brussels he moved to Ghent to supervise the publication of El Filibusterismo.
My Inquirer column yesterday was on Rizal in Brussels...