BALANGA CITY, Philippines – Mount Samat in Pilar town, Bataan is being eyed for development as a world-class war memorial and premier tourist spot in Central Luzon. Bataan Gov. Albert Raymond ...

PILAR, Bataan: Mount Samat and the Pantingan River, both in Pilar, Bataan, stood out as the bloodiest sites in the province, receiving the brunt of fury of the invading Japanese troops during World ...

Samat. Vicky Garcia, chairperson of the Bataan Tourism Council Foundation Inc. said the trek to Mt. Samat in Pilar town , this province, aims to inspire the youth and the faithful on Christian ...

GMA News anchor Raffy Tima captured photos of the Mt. Samat National Shrine from the GMA Network building in Quezon City. Thanks to clear skies, the Dambana ng Kagitingan located in Pilar, Bataan is ...

The Bataan Peninsula as seen from the Mount Samat National Shrine, a monument topped with a giant memorial cross in memory of US and Philippine dead in World War II. The South China Sea is in the ...

PILAR, Bataan—Local tourists visiting the Mt. Samat Shrine of Valor will be restricted to 200 visitors at a time as a precautionary measure against the surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19 ...

Most of the shrines for the battle of Bataan are located around Mt. Samat, which is a twenty-five minute ride in a tuk-tuk from Balanga. On that high ground, which dominates the center of the ...

RECOMMITMENT TO TODAY'S THREATS In addition to visiting the camp site, Garza and her brother also attended the 75th commemoration of the Bataan March and veterans' week held at Mount Samat ...

Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO), Provincial Government of Bataan (PGB) and the Municipality of Pilar. The event underscored the historical value of the Mount Samat National Shrine ...

PILAR, Bataan—Marcelo Felipe mastered the brutal ... 164.5-km ride from Harbour Point in Subic to the peak of Mount Samat here. Felipe is ahead by 47 seconds over Davids, who clocked four ...

Today, the Bataan peninsula is the site of oil refineries, a shipyard, and many monuments to the suffering that took place there in the 1940s. A national landmark atop 4,500-foot Mount Samat in ...