T'was my fifth time to go to Dambana ng Kagitingan (Shrine of Valor). It's a World War II monument which opened in 1966 during the term of the late president Ferdinand E. Marcos. It sits on top of mount Samat in Pilar, Bataan covering an area of 73.66 hectares. The things to see include the memorial cross and the colonnade. The memorial cross is 306 feet high with an elevator and a viewing gallery (arm of the cross). The colonnade is a marble-capped structure with an altar, esplanade museum.
In my 5 visits to this Bataan landmark, it is only now that I discovered that there is an interesting basement museum. Unfortunately, the elevator was not working and nobody dared climb the 30 storey stairway so we missed that part.
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