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Kadinjača Memorial Complex
Kadinjača, Užice, Zlatibor District · Serbia
A memorial complex on the road from Užice to Bajina Bašta, dedicated to the fighters of the Workers’ Battalion of the Užice Partisan Detachment, who fell on 29 November 1941 defending the approach to free Užice in the last days of the Republic of Užice. The first monument, a pyramid above an ossuary, was raised in 1952, and the complex took its present form in 1979, to the design of sculptor Miodrag Živković and architect Aleksandar Đokić: the amphitheatre of the Republic of Užice, the avenue of the Workers’ Battalion and the plateau of freedom. In the same year it was declared a cultural monument of exceptional importance.
Why it is in the database
The monument meets the following criteria:
- IIRemembranceCommemorates a person, event or suffering from Serbian history.
- IIICreativityThe work of Serbian builders, painters and sculptors or of a school of Serbian art.
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