[6] The site, which was the former concentration camp for the Allied prisoners,[2] is a focus for commemorations on Araw ng Kagitingan (Valour Day), an annual observance held on 9 April—the anniversary of the surrender of US and Philippine forces to Imperial Japan in 1942.

[7] The area where the Bataan Death March ended was proclaimed as "Capas National Shrine" by President Corazon Aquino on 7 December 1991.

[8][9] On 9 April 2003, a 73-metre (240 ft) obelisk symbolizing peace[4] surrounded by a new memorial wall were unveiled on a part of the grounds of the former internment camp.

[3][10] Nearby, on the western side of the shrine, there are three smaller memorials to the countries whose nationals died at the camp: the Philippines, the United States, and the Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia).

The relics of an old livestock wagon or boxcar of the Philippine National Railway and railings are also found in the shrine complex.