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Erected in 1894, to commemorate those who fell for Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman rule, and in particular several participants in the April Uprising who had been hanged on that spot. A bronze statue of a woman with a trumpet on top of a 12 m stone column taken from the ruins of the Roman city Nicopolis ad Istrum (north of Veliko Tarnovo). Sculptor Arnaldo Zòcchi, who also created the Monument to the Liberator Tsar in Sofia.
It was built around 1777, and is now a heritage monument. Stone tower with wooden superstructure and a copper dome of the belfry.