{"id":1450,"date":"2015-05-21T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guyshachar.com\/content\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2016-07-24T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T10:12:31","slug":"bulgaria-beklemeto-pass-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/2015\/bulgaria-beklemeto-pass-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria Beklemeto Pass Arc of Liberty Monument Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beklemeto Pass or Troyan Pass ( Bulgarian: \u0422\u0440\u043e\u044f\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0445\u043e\u0434) is a mountain pass in the Bulgarian Balkan Mountains at 1520 meters above sea level. On one of the peaks above the pass there is a monument named &#8220;Arc of Liberty&#8221;. It is dedicated to the victory of the Russian army in January 1878 capturing the pass, leading to the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman regime. The monument also commemorates the Bulgarian &#8211; Russian unity following World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by architect Georgi Stoilov and sculptor Velichko Minekov, its height is 37 meters. The wonderful Communist-Brutalist structure contains staircases on both &#8220;legs&#8221;, leading to a complex of connected spaces on the upper horizontal part. From there, a ladder leads to the roof, from which a magnificent view of the Balkan range (&#8220;Stara Planina&#8221;) can be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally the climb is not an official part of a visit to the site, thus exploring the monument from the inside out is a wonderful urban exploration.<\/p>\n<p>This documentation is a call for preservation and maintenance of this unique monument, which is part of the Bulgarian history and a fine architectural piece.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kad-youtube-shortcode videofit\"  ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASUISgyVlqE?autoplay=0&controls=1&fs=1&modestbranding=0&theme=dark&rel=0&loop=0&showinfo=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h1>Photos of the monument<\/h1>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_5_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_6_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_7_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_8_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_9_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_10_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_11_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_12_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine piece of Communist &#8211; Brutalist architecture commemorates an important event in Bulgarian history. Currently neglected and in poor maintenance, a climb inside the structure is a thrilling experience, so as the view from the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[16,17,32,80],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balkans","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-history","tag-urban-exploration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}