Mausoleum of Mateiaș

Here in the Mateiaș area, Nămăiesti Group, led by General Traian Găiseanu and comprising the 22nd and 12th Infantry Divisions, succeeded in resisting a clearly better-equipped and much better prepared enemy, during the period 8 October to 23 November 1916 (New Style).

Through the fighting here, the advance of the Central Powers towards the Wallachian Plain was stopped, but due to the breakthrough of the front on Jiu, the soldiers of the 2 divisions were ordered to withdraw - undefeated - on November 16/29, 1916, towards Târgoviște.

The building is composed of two parts: a horizontal one (the ossuary) which houses the bones of over 2,300 Romanian soldiers in 31 crypts, and a vertical one, in the shape of a tower with a spiral staircase leading to a pavilion.

[2]In the period 1980–1984, the Heroes' Mausoleum was expanded by building a parade terrace, imposing access stairs, museum rooms, a 16 m long and 3.5 m high bas-relief made by the sculptor Adrian Radu from Câmpulung.

A cup made of Albești stone was also built, in which an eternal flame burns in memory of the fallen heroes in Mateiaș.