by Susan | Oct 5, 2026 | Monuments, Uncategorized
The Destroyed City (Dutch: De verwoeste stad) is a 6.5m-high bronze memorial sculpture in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. It commemorates the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, which destroyed the medieval center of the city. Unveiled in 1953, It is the largest...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2026 | Monuments
In 2005, the mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, took initiative for the worldwide organization Mayors For Peace, and Narvik was one of the municipalities that joined. Akiba donated a stone from the reputed zero-point field Hiroshima as a gift to Narvik. The stone...
by Susan | Sep 21, 2026 | Monuments
Part of the Sierra Leone Peace Museum, this monument created in the center of Freetown in 2011 as the first major memorial to their horrific civil war (1991–2002). It is a sculpture garden which includes a peace pole and peace bridge, texts of prayers, testimonies...
by Susan | Sep 14, 2026 | Monuments
Just before midnight on September 15, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo, a priest from the small town of Dolores near Guanajuato ordered the church bells to be rung and cried out to the native Mexicans and the working classes of mixed origin, urging them to stand up and take back...
by Susan | Sep 7, 2026 | Monuments
Near the business center of Libreville, in front of the Presidential Palace, the stele of freedom commemorates the end of the slave trade in 1848. Following Schoelcher’s declaration, 272 enslaved men, women and children were freed and then founded the city of...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2026 | Monuments
This equestrian statue by Karel Nepraš was installed in the Žižkov district of Prague, Czech Republic in 2005, having been completed by Karolína Neprašová after her father’s death. It is located in an area where Hašek lived during writing of his famous novel The...
