Tomb of National Heroes, Memorial tomb near National Assembly Building in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The Tomb of National Heroes consists of an underground burial chamber and a sarcophagus-shaped monument on National Heroes Square, beside the National Assembly building. The sarcophagus stands on a granite base and bears bronze reliefs on its eastern and western faces depicting scenes from the Second World War. The names of the buried are carved on its four faces.

The site was established in 1949 to honor resistance fighters such as Tone Tomšič and Slavko Šlander, who were executed by Italian and German forces during World War II. The monument came about as a response to the need for remembrance of these individuals.

The epitaph along the top edge of the sarcophagus was written by the poet Oton Župančič in December 1948, one of his last works, and carved in 1949. Its verses begin: 'Domovina je ena nam vsem dodeljena, in eno življenje in ena smrt.' In 2013 the same verses were reused on the Monument to the Victims of All Wars, a move that some of Župančič's descendants and politicians called a misuse.

The monument sits on National Heroes Square south of its center, next to Šubic Street and easy to reach on foot. The site is openly accessible, allowing you to walk by and view the memorial from the outside at any time.

The names on the sarcophagus were not all carved at once: those on the north and south faces were buried in the tomb on 24 April 1949, while Edvard Kardelj, Miha Marinko, Stane Semič and others were added later, after their deaths in 1953, 1966, 1979, 1983 and 1985.