Address:
Sofia, Vasil Levski Blvd. 81
Museum Hours:
09:00-17:00
The Memorial Tomb of Alexander I of
Battenberg (Bulgarian: Гробница паметник „Александър І Батенберг“, Grobnitsa pametnik „Aleksandar І Batenberg“), better known as the
Battenberg Mausoleum (Мавзолей на Батенберг, Mavzoley na Batenberg) in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is the mausoleum and
final resting place of Prince Alexander I of Bulgaria (1857–1893), the first Head of State of modern Bulgaria.
Commissioned to the Swiss architect Hermann Mayer, designed in the eclectic style (with prominent elements of Neo-Baroque and
Neoclassicism) and opened in 1897, the mausoleum measures 11 metres in height and 80 square metres in area.