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 Dragos-Mirel Blanaru
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| General Description : | The Independence Monument on Gloriei Street is in it’s own little park atop one of the hills of Tulcea town. Built in 1899 to honour the war dead from the War of Independence, which is what the Romanians call their part of the Russo-Turkish wars. Romania sided with Russia in the conflict which ended in 1878, when the Ottoman Turks were forced out of Dobrogea. The Turkish province of Dobruja had been in the Ottoman Empire since 1420, which gives today’s Dobrogea it’s diverse cultural history. The grand granite obelisk points 22 metres skyward, bordered by a bronze infantryman and an eagle. The views of the river and town are wonderful here. Originally carved in a studio near in Milan out of Bavenno granite, the monument was paired with the bronze figures from a Venice studio, and shipped and assembled on the Tulcean hill. |
| Material | Bronze |
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