The Heroes’ Mausoleum inToplita

The Heroes’ Mausoleum is located on the Topliţa-Borsec Road, at the edge of Topliţa. It was built on the initiative of “The Cult of The Heroes” Society, and was inaugurated in 1925.

At the base of the mausoleum there is the ossuary that shelters the bones of 771 Romanian soldiers fallen in battle in 1918 in this region. Of these, 25 are identified, and placed in individual niches, and 746, unidentified, are deposited in the ossuary.

There are 18 white and black marble plates on the walls of the building, on which the names of Romanian heroes are written.

Photo source: https: //once.mapn.ro/, Georgeta Maiorescu