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The Eternal Flame (Serbian: Вечна ватра, romanized: Večna vatra) is a memorial in the Park of Friendship in Belgrade, Serbia.It is dedicated to the military and civilian casualties resulting from the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and symbolizes the resistance of the Serbian nation to the attack.
The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame is a presidential memorial at the grave site of assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. This permanent site replaced a temporary grave and eternal flame used at the time of Kennedy's state funeral on November 25, 1963, three days after his assassination .
Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin eternal flame memorializing losses during World War II .. An eternal flame is a flame, lamp or torch that burns for an indefinite time. Most eternal flames are ignited and tended intentionally, but some are natural phenomena caused by natural gas leaks, peat fires and coal seam fires, all of which can be initially ignited by lightning, piezoelectricity or human activity ...
The torch for the memorial's Eternal Flame was transported from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), where it had been lit from the Eternal Flame at the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution on the Field of Mars. To the left of the tomb is a granite wall with an inlay stating: "1941 – To Those Who Have Fallen For The Motherland – 1945".
Eternal Flame. The Eternal Flame was lit in 1975 at the same time as the opening of the memorial complex. Since 1980, on the days of the Great Victory, an honor guard of the best pioneers and Komsomol members of the city have been posted at the Eternal Flame.
The marching crowd chanted "spilled blood will never be forgotten" and "hands off Panama" as they approached the monument of the eternal flame, built to remember those that died in 1964. Earlier ...
The eternal flame over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The flame springs from the muzzle of a cannon taken from the enemy, placed in the centre of a bronze shield, from which radiates a frieze of chiselled swords. The idea of burning a flame permanently was first put forward in early 1921 by the Ariège sculptor Grégoire Calvet. [18]
The monument holds the Tomb of the Italian Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of goddess Roma after World War I following an idea of General Giulio Douhet. [17] The body of the unknown soldier was chosen on 28 October 1921 from among 11 unknown remains by Maria Bergamas , a woman from Gradisca d'Isonzo whose only ...