The Monument of Freedom

 museum, listed building / architectural heritage, 1934_construction, war memorial, 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria

The Shipka Memorial is a memorial to those who died for the Liberation of Bulgaria during the Battles of Shipka in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. It is located on Peak Stoletov in Stara Planina, central Bulgaria, and was opened with a ceremony in 1934 and designed by architect Atanas Donkov and sculptor Aleksandar Andreev.
The monument is a 31.5-metre (98-foot) high stone tower in the form of a truncated pyramid. A giant bronze lion, 8 m (26 feet) long and 4 m (13 feet) high, stands above the entrance to the tower, and a figure of a woman represents the victory over the Ottoman forces. The top of the tower reveals a panorama of Shipka Peak and the surrounding area.
A panoramic view opens out from the last platform to the surrounding area, with the reconstructed batteries, trenches, marked positions, monuments and common graves, which have preserved the memory of the feat and self-sacrifice of the Shipka heroes.

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