Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria, Sofia, Socialist monument in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria was an architectural-monumental complex in the garden in front of the National Palace of Culture on Bulgaria Square, built in 1981 and dismantled in 2017. It consisted of a concrete core clad in brass panels, with 7-metre figures and a total height of 35 metres. Three sculptural groups represented literacy, gratitude and creation, rising toward a wing-shaped block.
The monument was built in 1981 to honor the founding of the Bulgarian state. It was constructed in the late socialist period using materials of lower quality, which led to early deterioration.
The monument displays figures from different periods of Bulgarian history, including Saints Cyril and Methodius and King Simeon. These representations mark important moments in how the Bulgarian state and its culture developed.
The monument stood in the garden in front of the National Palace of Culture on Bulgaria Square, where the Vitosha Barracks and a memorial to soldiers of the First and Sixth Sofia Infantry Regiments had been. It was dismantled in 2017, so visitors today find no structure there.
The monument no longer stands: it was dismantled in 2017. Its 7-metre figures included "The Creator", an image of an ordinary worker, one of three groups on a 35-metre concrete and brass composition. The site is the garden in front of the National Palace of Culture.
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