The Padeș Proclamation Monument
Architecture and historical monuments
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The Padeș Proclamation Monument is a memorial monument in the village of Padeș, Gorj County, which commemorates and celebrates the beginning of Tudor Vladimirescu's Revolution in 1821. The monument, erected in the first half of the 20th century in the so-called Câmpie a Soarelui (or Libertății), in the Valcan Mountains, is the work of the Romanian architect State Baloșin.
The Proclamation of Padeș was one of the programmatic documents that recorded the goals of the Revolution of 1821 led by Tudor Vladimirescu, an event that marked the end of Phanariot domination and the beginning of the process of national rebirth.
The proclamation included an exhortation to the Romanian people to take part in the struggle for liberation from Phanariot influence, as well as a series of demands, including the division of the lands of the boyars and monasteries to the peasantry, the abolition of boyar privileges, justice and freedom.
The proclamation was read in front of a crowd gathered on Câmpia Soarelui de la Padeș, on January 23, 1821, through it Tudor Vladimirescu launched the call to battle "to all mankind". Thus, the people were mobilized to fight against evil in the country, for the stability of a new political regime in the country.
