The Pantheon of the Fallen of the Wars, located in Varna’s Sea Garden, honours those who died in various conflicts. It was inaugurated on November 6, 1959.
The original plan for the common grave-pantheon envisioned a truncated cone faced with white stone, with the domed ossuary crowned by stone laurels. This idea was soon abandoned in favor of a new design by professors Lyubomir Dalchev and Peter Koutsarov. They proposed a thematic concept based on seven existing exterior reliefs—two created by Varna sculptors Vesselin Nachev and Christo Boev, and the remaining five by a team from Sofia.
Above the monument’s impressive wrought-iron doors, Varna sculptor Ivan Kovachev created a factory worker holding a lowered banner and a kneeling girl with flowers—the only scene evoking mourning rather than heroism. On top of the monument, two brave soldiers in the thick of battle were sculpted under the guidance of Professors Dalchev and Koutsarov. The ossuary lies below ground, and the memorial walls bear the engraved names of those who fell between 1923 and 1944.
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