Events

08.11.2024 - 31.01.2025
Park-Museum "Vladislav Varnenchik"
Official opening: 08.11.2024, 12:30

The 580th anniversary of the Battle of Varna will be celebrated on November 8th (Friday) at 11:30 am in the Park-Museum of Military Friendship - 1444 "Vladislav Varnenchik", a branch of the National Military History Museum. The celebrations will begin with a military ritual performed by the Naval Forces, the laying of wreaths and flowers in front of the mausoleum of King Vladislav III and the monument of the Transylvanian voivode Janos Hunyadi, and will continue with a memorial service by the clergy at the Church of "St. Dimitar" in memory of the fallen warriors.

Immediately after the ritual, at 12:30 pm, the exhibition "Varna. The Last Battle" will be officially opened. The exhibition showcases the organization and realization of the last crusades in the Balkans (1443 – 1444) as an attempt to oppose the Ottoman invasion. For the first time, the first historical treatise dedicated to Bulgaria "The Antiquity of the Fatherland and the Bulgarian Affairs" by Petar Bogdan Bakshev will be presented to the Varna public. Written to draw the attention of Western Christianity to the fate of the Bulgarians, the work is another step in aid of the diplomatic mission of the Tsiprovian revolutionary, writer and clergyman, aiming at the realization of a new European military coalition against the Ottoman Empire.

The exposition also presents medieval weapons and equipment, coins, ornaments and household items, among which the Halkina cuirass, a helmet, a halberd, iron battle cores, coins, a large two-pronged key, etc., which illustrate the time of the last crusades on the Balkans.

The exhibition "Varna. The Last Battle" was realized in partnership with the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at BAS, Regional History Museum - Ruse, Regional History Museum - Silistra, Regional History Museum - Shumen, and can be viewed until the end of January 2025.