Shipka-Buzludzha National Park-museum, Open-air memorial park and museum in the Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria
Shipka-Buzludzha National Park-museum is an open-air memorial complex in the Central Balkan Mountains, made up of several separate sites in Kazanlak Municipality: the Shipka park-museum with the Freedom Monument on Shipka Peak, the Nativity of Christ memorial church at Shipka Monastery, the Victory Monument near Sheynovo village, and the Buzludzha park-museum around the Buzludzha Monument on Hadzhi Dimitar Peak. The Freedom Monument, opened in 1934, is a 31.5-metre tower reached by 890 steps, with a bronze lion above the entrance and a marble sarcophagus inside.
The park-museum was created in 1964 by merging the Buzludzha National Park, established in 1959 on the southern slope of Buzludzha peak (1,441 m), with the Shipka National Park. It preserves memorials to the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War, including the Freedom Monument on Shipka peak, unveiled on 26 August 1934, and the Buzludzha monument commemorating the founding congress of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party held on 2 August 1891.
The park-museum takes its name from two sites: the Shipka Pass, where battles raged in 1877, and Buzludzha Peak, where the founding congress of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party was held on 2 August 1891. The Buzludzha memorial, opened in 1961, marks that congress with a white-stone bas-relief. Nearby stands a monument to three fallen partisans of the Gabrovo-Sevlievo detachment.
The park-museum spreads across Shipka town, Sheynovo village and the Shipchenska mountains, with the Freedom Monument on Shipka peak reached by 890 steps. The Buzludzha section lies 12 km east of Shipka Pass on Hadzhi Dimitar peak, 1,441 m high. The park directorate is at 8 P. R. Slaveykov Street in Kazanlak.
The Buzludzha park-museum was created in 1959 by order No. 274 of the Council of Ministers on the southern slope of the 1,441-metre Buzludzha peak, 12 km east of Shipka Pass. Three monuments were installed in 1961, and the park was merged with the Shipka park in 1964 to form the national park-museum.
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