{"id":53,"date":"2019-08-21T22:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site21.blogs.americavip.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2021-01-26T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T11:21:54","slug":"bells-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/2019\/08\/21\/bells-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Bells Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/site21.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-Bells-Monument-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58\" src=\"http:\/\/site21.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-Bells-Monument-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-Bells-Monument-03.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-Bells-Monument-03-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/22\/files\/sites\/22\/2019\/08\/Bulgaria-VIP-Bells-Monument-03-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bells<\/strong><strong> Monument (Vitosha Mountain, Sofia)<\/strong> &#8212; The Bells monument is situated 14 km eastwards from the center of Sofia at the foot of Vitosha Mountain. \u00a0This was initially built in 1979 to celebrate the World Children initiative by UNESCO.\u00a0 It was originally thought to hold a children\u2019s festival only in 1979, but due to the big success the festival was repeated every 4 years until 1990 when communism in Bulgaria collapsed and funding was not available.<\/p>\n<p>There is a circle of bells donated from over 90 countries that surround the main monument. You can see bells from countries that no longer exist, such as the USSR, The German Democratic Republic, etc. Some bells were made very original and depict the culture of their country.\u00a0 During the Communist era, the monument was often used for initiations of pioneers (similar to boy scouts) that were part of the Communist culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bells Monument (Vitosha Mountain, Sofia) &#8212; The Bells monument is situated 14 km eastwards from the center of Sofia at the foot of Vitosha Mountain. \u00a0This was initially built in 1979 to celebrate the World Children initiative by UNESCO.\u00a0 It was originally thought to hold a children\u2019s festival only in 1979, but due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.bulgariavip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}