Dolina heroja, Monument complex in Foča Municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dolina heroja is a memorial complex near Tjentište in Sutjeska National Park. Its centrepiece is Miodrag Živković's 1971 monument: two white concrete wings, 19 metres high, split by a passage shaped with moving fighters and columns. Behind it, the Plateau of Brigades carries the names of units in stone strips. A 1958 ossuary below holds the remains of 3,301 fighters.
The site commemorates a pivotal battle of 1943 when Partisan forces faced a much larger opposing army and suffered severe losses. The monument was constructed later to preserve the memory of these events for future generations.
The name Valley of Heroes refers to the 258 Partisan fighters decorated with the Order of a People's Hero for the 1943 battle, 45 of them posthumously. The Spomen-kuća murals were painted after Krsto Hegedušić's designs by Branka Hegedušić, Milenko Bosanac, Milutin Gajić, Ratko Janjić Jobo, Zlatko Keser and Fedor Ličina, with Hamid Madeško as master mason. The 1973 film Sutjeska, directed by Stipe Delić, was shot here.
The site sits in a mountainous area within a national park and is accessible via the M-20 road from Foča. Visitors should expect uneven terrain and weather that changes with the seasons.
The monument's two 19-metre concrete wings were engineered by Đorđe Zloković with sculptor Ladislav Fekete. Between the wings, the gap is shaped as a passage through columns of fighters in motion. Behind it, the "Plateau of Brigades" carries stone strips inscribed with unit names. In February 2018 a landslide threatened the structure; repairs later that year restored the hillside.
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