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Calamba - natal town of Rizal - named after a big native jar - the happiest period of Rizals life was spent in this lakeshore town, a worthy prelude to his Hamlet-like tragic manhood CALAMBA, THE HEROES TOWN Calamba - a hacienda town which belonged to the Dominican Order who also owned all the lands around it - picturesque town nestling on a verdant plain covered with irrigated ricefields and sugar-lands - a few kilometers to the south looms the legendary Mount Makiling and beyond this mountain is the province of Batangas - east of the town is the Laguna de Bay which is an inland lake of songs and emerald waters beneath the canopy of azure skies - in the middle of the lake towers the storied island of Talim and beyond it towards the north is the distant Antipolo which is famous mountain shrine of the miraculous Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo (In Memory of My Town) - a poem written by Rizal in 1876, age 15, while he was a student in Ateneo de Manila, when he rememberes his hometown (see p. 9 for the poem)