Teatro Caviteño

Teatro Caviteño, 1898..

Teatro Caviteño as Cuartel Heneral

Teatro Caviteño was built by one of the wealthiest residents of Cavite Puerto, Don Esteban Jose y Lazareto in 1885. It was located in front of Ermita de Porta Vaga at Plaza Soledad, now part of Samonte Park, Cavite City..

The Teatro was a place of entertainment where Filipino and foreign stage plays were performed. During the American occupation, the place was converted into a cabaret by an American, a certain Mr. Hart.

It was destroyed by fire in the early morning of Friday, November 18, 1921 and never rebuilt..

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The theater was Emilio Aguinaldo's first military headquarters upon his return from Hong Kong on May 19, 1898. 

It was here that the Philippine national flag was hoisted for the first time on May 28, 1898 after the Filipinos defeated the Spaniards in the battle of Alapan, Imus, Cavite. The town of San Roque was merged into Cavite Nuevo in 1903..

( PHILIPPINE CENTER FOR MASONIC STUDIES)