MONUMENT OF FREEDOM

The Freedom Monument in Sevlievo is among the first monumental monuments to those who died in the April Uprising and the Liberation War in young Bulgaria. The idea came from the surviving militiamen and fighters who united in 1882 in the militia company “Lev”. As the first task in their charter, it is written “…to erect a monument in the city to remind of the fallen militiamen, insurgents and fighters…