The city also boasts of Fantasyland, the first amusement park in the Visayas-Mindanao region.
In 1894, Jose Rizal sent (from Dapitan) to Möllendorff (who was in Manila at that time) specimens of large sea snails know as tun shells together with some specimens of a species of small freshwater snails stored in glass vials.
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It was during his term when José Rizal, leader of the Philippine propaganda movement, was sent to Dapitan island, in Mindanao.
Rizal sa Dapitan (lit. Rizal in Dapitan), is a 1997 film adaptation of life of the Filipino national hero Dr. José Rizal, starring Albert Martinez as José Rizal and Amanda Page as Josephine Bracken, the screenplay is by Pete Lacaba.