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Burgos Museum
At the far end of the main plaza in Vigan is the Burgos Museum. The musuem is named after the priest Fr. Jose Burgos, who was born here. Fr. Burgos, studied for the priesthood in Manila and became a champion of the Filipino clergy. This incurred the ire of the Spanish friars. After a mutiny was crushed, Fr. Burgos, together with two other priests, Fr. Mariano Gomez and Fr. Jacinto Zamora were implicated in the failed mutiny. They were all executed by gorrote, strangulation with an iron collar in 1872 at what is now known as Luneta. They so inspired the oppressed Filipinos that they the three were nicknamed Gomburza – after the surnames of the three priests.
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