Rizal's missions for travelling in Europe are to further his studies and to observe the life and culture of Europeans.

1. 1882-1887

2.  Overt and covert
mission:
 to complete Rizal’s
studies and
 to study life and
culture of European
nations.

3. May 3-8, 1882,
boarded in
Salvadora to
Singapore
May 9, registered
at Hotel de la Paz
May, 11 –
boarded in
Djemmah bound
for Europe
May 17 –
reached Point
Galle a seacoast
town in Sri Lanka
May 18,
Colombo, Sri
Lanka
Cape of
Guardafui, Africa
Aden
Suez Canal,
traversed for 5
days
June, 11 –
reached Naples
June 12,
Djemmah docked
at Marseillles
Visited Chateau
d’If, a setting in
the Count of
Monte Cristo
Barcelona, Spain

6. Mezquita of Cordoba El Escorial Sagrada Familia Ibiza

7.  June 16, 1882: Rizal reached Barcelona.
 “Amor Patrio” (Love of Country):
 first article written on Spain under pen-name
Laong-Laan,
 the essay appeared in Diariong Tagalog on
August 20, 1882, in two texts – Spanish and Tagalog
(translation by M.H. Del Pilar).

8. While in Barcelona, Rizal received sad news
about the cholera in the Philippines
Following the advice of Paciano, Rizal moved
to Madrid (fall of 1882) to finish his medical
course.
November 3,: Rizal enrolled in the Universidad
Central de Madrid – Medicine & Philosophy &
Letters.
He also studied painting and sculpture
He took lessons in French, German and
English at the Academy of San Carlos

9.  Rizal joined the Circulo Hispano-Filipino.
 Upon the request of the members of this society, Rizal
wrote a poem entitled “Mi Piden Versos” (They Ask Me
for Verses), which he personally declaimed during the
New Year’s Eve reception (December 31, 1882)

10. Budget priorities: food, clothing, lodging
and books
Only extravagance: a few pesetas for
lottery tickets in every draw of the Madrid
Lottery.
Leisure: reading and writing at his
boarding house; attending reunions at the
house of the Paterno brothers; practicing
fencing and shooting; sipping coffee at
Antigua Cafe de Levante.

11.  In Calamba, harvests of rice and sugarcane failed;
there was increase in rentals of the lands; turkeys
raised by Rizal’s father were killed by dreadful pest...
 June 24, 1884: Without breakfast, he attended class at
the University, participated in Greek language contest
and won a gold medal.
 In the evening of the same day, he was only able to eat
dinner because he was a guest speaker in banquent
held in honor of Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion
Hidalgo at Restaurant Ingles in Madrid.

12. “...genius knows no country,
genius sprouts everywhere,
genius is like light, air, the
patrimony of everybody,
cosmopolitan like space, like
life, like God...”

13.  F.R.
Hidalgo,
2nd Prize,
National
Exposition
of Fine Arts
in Madrid
(1884)

14. Juan Luna,
1st Prize,
National
Expositi
on of
Fine Arts
in
Madrid,
1884

15.  On Saturday evenings, Rizal would visit
the home of Don Pablo Ortiga y
Rey (former city mayor of Manila) who
now lived in Madrid with his son (Rafael)
and daughter (Consuelo).
 Rizal was shy and lonely;
Consuelo was attractive and
vivacious.
 Poem: A La Señorita C.O. y R. (August 22,
1883)

16.  He was still in love with
Leonor Rivera
 His friend and co-worker in
the Propaganda Movement,
Eduardo de Lete, who was
also madly in love with
Consuelo.

17.  June 17 to August 20, 1883: First summer vacation in
Madrid
 Hotel de Paris, 37 Rue de Maubange
 124 Rue de Rennes
 Champs Elysses, the Opera House, the Place de la
Concorde, the Arch of Triumph, the Bois de Boulogne
(magnificent park), the Madeleine church, the
Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Column of Vendome,
the Invalides (containing the tomb of Napoleon the
Great), and the fabulous Versailles.
 “Paris is the costliest capital in Europe...”

22. In Spain, Rizal came in close contact with
Masons (Miguel Morayta, Francisco Pi y
Margal, Manuel Becerra, et al.)
March 1883, Rizal joined the Masonic
Lodge Acacia in Madrid.
November 15, 1890, Rizal transferred to
Lodge Solidaridad, where he became a
Master Mason.
February 15, 1892, he was awarded the
diploma as Master Mason by Le Grand
Orient de France in Paris.

24.  Finished the degree of Licentiate in Medicine
by the Universidad Central de Madrid on June 21, 1884.
 The next academic year, (1884-1885)did not finished
the degree of Doctor of Medicine; since he did not
present the thesis nor paid the corresponding fees, he
was not awarded his Doctor’s diploma.
 Rizal also finished his studies in Philosophy and
Letters at the same university on June 19, 1885 (his
24th birthday), with the rating of “Excellent”
(Sobresaliente).