EMILIO AGUINALDO SHRINE

Travel to the historic town of Kawit, Cavite and relieve history by visiting the Aguinaldo Shrine. The ancestral house of General Emilio Aguinaldo in Kawit, Cavite was first built in 1845 and reconstructed in 1849. On March 22, 1869, the first president of the First Republic of the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo was born here. It is also where the Philippine independence from Spain was first proclaimed from the window of its grand hall along with the playing of Julian Felipe's Marcha National Filipina on On June 12, 1898.