Unknown Soldier's Tomb (Bucharest)

 memorial, monument, 1923_construction

After World War I, Romania was among the first countries that, following the example of France, decided to build a monument dedicated to the memory of those who died on the battlefields. Thus, according to the Versailles Treaty, where each country’s responsibilities to honour the war graves was agreed, Romania was the first country that assimilated the foreign heroes to the national ones, as shown in the "Memoire addressed to the Romanian Government by the Society for the Heroes Tombs", whose president was the Mitropolite Miron Cristea. The Unknown Soldier’s Tomb was, in fact, a simple crypt covered by a stone slab decorated with flower sculptures. On the slab there was the following inscription: "Here lies at rest happily unto the Lord the Unknown Soldier, extinguished from life in the sacrifice for the unity of the Romanian people. On his bones lies the land of united Romania. 1916-1919."