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SPACE TYPE: Monument
Set in a pine forest southeast of Riga, near the town of Salaspils, Kurtenhof Concentration Camp was the bigger of two camps built in or near the Latvian capital for civilians and Jews from the occupied territories. Set in a clearing a few hundred me [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1950
SPACE TYPE: Prison
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The labour camp was in use near the Csákány rock stone cave above the settlement between October 1950 and autumn 1953 by the State Defence Authority (ÁVH) established secretly by following the Russian model of gulags. The 1500 prisoners held fo [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1967
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
It is a World War II memorial sculpture by Dušan Džamonja, located in Podgarić, Berek, Croatia. One of the ex Yugoslavian monuments scattered through the country. It is a post World War II memorial sculpture designed to bear witness to the vict [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1980
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Bogdanović was commissioned to design this memorial park by Vukovar's town council and a local veterans association in 1978. It is built on the location of an execution site used during the Second World War, where nine mass graves were later [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1981
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
This monument was jointly commissioned by the municipalities of Trstenik and Vrnjačka Banja in 1977, and the construction of the 12 hectare memorial park, set within parkland of 106 hectares, was commenced in 1978. It is set on the slopes of two [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1981
SPACE TYPE: Monument
In the Bulgarian mythology, well before the appearance of human beings, the earth was inhabited by a race of giant named the Ispolini. It is difficult not to invoke these mysterious figureheads while walking the site of the «Founders of the Bulgari [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1974
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The ‘’Hillock of fraternity’’ monument symbolizes a Thracian hillock. It reminds of a stone wreath from above. A 90m long sculpture composition inside the monument is dedicated to the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, the The Unifi [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1964
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
One of the most notable sculptures dedicated to the partisans is the monument in the village of Balvan, near Veliko Tarnovo. The figures of the guerrilla fighters, also known as "shumkari" because they usually operated out of forests, stand on a c [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1971
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
In the recent history in other words in the World War II, one of the most difficult and bloodiest battles in which Partisan forces engaged against joint German- Italian and quisling troops took place in this area. The Sutjeska Battle (The Fifth Of [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1977
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
This massive Memorial Complex was erected in 1977 to celebrate the memories of whom who falled during the Russian- Turkish Liberation War. This brutalist monument reached 50 feet tall and includes giants statues of a Russian officer alongside six [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The Kadinjača Memorial Complex is located near Užice, Western Serbia. It consists of a monument and a Memorial Centre. The monument is made up of three parts: the Užice Republic Amphitheatre, the Workers’ Battalion Alley and the Freedom Plateau. [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
This monument located in the village of Topchiysko, Bulgaria, is a socialist monument to partisan fighters that died in the summer of 1944, while fighting for the communist regime which was soon to come to power. These were all people from the regi [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1977
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Designed by Gligor Čemerski, it was built from 1975 to 1977. There are some graffiti but the mosaic seems to be untouched [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1976
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
This monument was designed in brutalist style by Macedonian architect Petar Mulichkovski, in 1976. It's located in the town Kavadarci, Macedonia, on the top of a hill in a park near the center of town. It's a memorial of The Second World War an [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1972
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Monument to the Revolution (Serbo-Croatian: Spomenik Revoluciji) is a World War II memorial sculpture by Dušan Džamonja. Located at Mrakovica, one of the highest peaks of Kozara mountain, it is dedicated to the 2.500 Yugoslav partisan fighters a [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1975
SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The necropolis of the victims of fascism in Novi Travnik is one of the twenty-one monuments in the former Yugoslavia designed by Bogdan Bogdanović, and is an essential part of his opus. It was built in 1975 and is composed of an approach path con [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1965
SPACE TYPE: Cemetery
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Partisans' Memorial Cemetery in Mostar is on a site known as «Biskupova glavica» alongside King Petar Krešimir IV street, where the main entrance to the complex is located. The complex of the memorial cemetery stands on the northern slope of t [...]
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