Monuments thread

post monuments that celebrate your nation and it's history

Pic related is "Danmarksmonumentet" (The Monument of Denmark)

Its in a pretty poor condition and has been for awhile. It has also been put away so to speak. It has been removed from it otherwise quite prominent place right in front of the state museum of art to a corner of a small park behind the museum where you can barely see it.

It was moved there already in the 1920'ies because it was deemed ugly and not "real" art.


A monument ment to represent Denmark and which has all the classic characteristica of Denmark, the three lions, and Mother Denmark standing at the top for example was deemed "ugly" and not real art and thus promptly removed.

It makes my stomach churn.

Pic related is before the monument was moved. A picture of its current condition will follow in the next post.

This is it today.

Also, there used to be 3 bronze plates like the one you see in the front, but the two others have been stolen by gypsies.

Atleast it's alive

charlemagne in his home town of liege ;^)

True.

Is that Tsar Nicholas in the background?

here it is after being renovated but the picture kinda sucks

weew that's actually pretty bad

Nice.

This is a monument for the ship Dannebroge that sacrificed itself to let the rest of the danish fleet escape from a swedish ambush or surprise attack if i remmeber correctly.

Some 600 men went down with her.

Mount Rushmore

Oh, i fucked up. Thats two images.

Christ almighty thats horrible. How sad.

Bavaria in Munich

I've peed on this monument some years ago.

That's a cool monument. I like it when they incorporate nature.

Here's Mont Royale in Montreal with the famous cross at the top of the hill that lights up at night. As a fan of the band Justice I think it's swell.

>you will never live in Charlemagne's Europe
JUST

Not posting our best monument.

This is the Niederwalddenkmal.

Is was built inb 1871 to show how much we hate the french. It features sculptures of Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm & the lyrics of the Wacht am Rhein song (popular anti french song) .

It's about 40 meters high, stands on a mountain and is crowned by a Germania statue.

This is the Hermannsdenkmal.

It was built in 1875 to show how much we hate the Romans. It features Arminius who BTFO the romans hard in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

It's about 55 meters (180 feet) high.

That's just one example.
Most of the russian monuments perished.

The statue of Daniel O'Connel on Dublins Main Street.

Daniel O'Connel won rights for Catholic's in the British Empire by pushing forward the abolishment of the penal laws.

This is the Siegessäule.

It was built in 1873 to show much we the French. It features Viktoria, the goddess of Victory standing on a tower of golden cannons.
The french were so butthurt about it, they wanted to destroy it after WW2 but got cucked by the soviets & americans because they got beaten and were sarcastically allowed to call themselves a "winner" of WW2.

Lord Emu, my master and overlord.

This is the Marienburg.

It was built in the 13-14th centuary by teutonic Knights to show how much we hate Slavs.
Poles got cucked by them so hard, the even rebuilt it after it was destroyed by Soviets in WW2.

Never conquered, Iberian's shall live.

Saw that when I visited Berlin, its awesome

This is the Völkerschlachtdenkmal.

It was built in 1913 to show how much we hate the French.
It's a huge brick (91 metres /// 300 feet) that hovers over Leipzig and features cool Angels with swords just like in Heroes 3.

We have the similar one
this was build to celebrate second victory over turkish kebabs from their own cannons that we took as trophies. it was destroyed by commies but now rebuilded
anyway it had lost it sacral sence since it isn't made of turkish cannons anymore and the neigbourhood it is located in is inhabited by kebabs themselves

Nelsons column, built to commemorate him BTFOing the French at the battle of Trafalgar

Valley of the Fallen
Generalisimo Franco and based glorious crusaders were buried here

>It features Viktoria, the goddess of Victory

Don't you know it Hans

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German monument to the fallen in WWI, decorated in a traditional local manner.

shame,

I think we still have some Russian Cannon metal left over, you can't have any though

War memorial dedicated to the soldiers of the German-French war, built in 1879 in Kiel