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After a national contest was held for the purpose, a winning design by Filipino architect , the Visayas , and Mindanao ), 66 meters (217 ft) tall (Quezon's age when he died), surmounted by three mourning angels holding Sampaguita (the national flower) wreaths sculpted by the Italian sculptor Monti . The three pylons would in turn circumscribe a drum-like two-story structure containing a gallery from which visitors could look down at Quezon's tomb, modeled after Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb in the Invalides . Construction of the Quezon Memorial was begun in the late 1950s but proceeded slowly. It was finally completed in 1978 , the Centennial of Quezon's birth. His remains were reinterred in the memorial on August 19 , 1979 . Planned auxiliary structures, including a presidential library, museum, and theater, were never built. On April 28, 2005, the remains of Mrs. Aurora A. Quezon , widow of the president, were solemnly reinterred in the memorial as well. |
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