Hillock of Fraternity Memorial Complex
At the same time commemorating the "Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, the The Unification of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian partisan movement and “the victory of socialism” in 1944" the internet reliably informs me that this complex was designed to resemble a "Thracian Hillock".
Unless Thracian hillocks were underground rotundas constructed in angular monolithic béton brut, we can thank architects Lubomir Shinkov and Vladimir Rangelov for interpreting them as such.
The locked gate and absence of an "eternal" flame at the centre suggest that the people of Plovdiv may have other priorities than celebrating "the victory of socialism", but their loss is my gain; abandoned, draughty, and vaguely unsettling, it is very much my sort of place :)
Hillock of Fraternity Memorial Complex
At the same time commemorating the "Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, the The Unification of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian partisan movement and “the victory of socialism” in 1944" the internet reliably informs me that this complex was designed to resemble a "Thracian Hillock".
Unless Thracian hillocks were underground rotundas constructed in angular monolithic béton brut, we can thank architects Lubomir Shinkov and Vladimir Rangelov for interpreting them as such.
The locked gate and absence of an "eternal" flame at the centre suggest that the people of Plovdiv may have other priorities than celebrating "the victory of socialism", but their loss is my gain; abandoned, draughty, and vaguely unsettling, it is very much my sort of place :)