The General Aguinaldo shrine….a must see shrine of Cavite is a national shrine of the Philippines, located in Kawit, Cavite. Every 12th of June, the Philippine flag is raised commemorating Independence Day.
The shrine is the ancestral home of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the First Republic of the Philippines, and it was here that Philippine independence from Spain was proclaimed from a window of the home on June 12, 1898. The proclamation of Philippine Independence was read, though this was subsequently replaced by another declaration written and signed in Malolos, Bulacan.
President Aguinaldo, while in retirement, constructing an elaborate "Independence balcony" which many visitors today assume to be the actual location of the Independence Proclamation. The first president himself is buried in the garden of his home, which he donated to the Philippine government in 1962.
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