National Park - Museum "Shipka"

Национальный парк-музей “Шипка-Бузлуджа”

Once a battlefield, Shipka has now been turned into an open-air museum – the National Park-Museum “Shipka”. It was created in 1956 and encompasses the area of the historic places related to the defence of the Shipka Pass during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877/78. It is a complex of monuments, reconstructions of positions, batteries and dug-outs. The first monuments were Russian and were built in 1878-1881. The Bulgarian monuments on the Shipka battlefield are of the 3rd and the 5th bodies of volunteers (1910) and the Monument of Freedom on Sveti Nikola peak (nowadays Shipka peak), unveiled in 1934.

Text source: http://www.altera-group.com/shipka/museumen.html
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