Mausoleul de la Mateiaș

The Mausoleum of Heroes in Valea Mare-Pravăț commune, Argeș county, also known as the Mausoleum of Mateiaș, is a monument dedicated to the heroes of the National War of 1916-1918. It is located on the European road E574, 11 km from Câmpulung towards Brașov, on the Mateiaș Hill.

The monument is inscribed at position no. 1010, with code AG-IV-m-A-14017, in the "List of Historical Monuments", updated by Order of the Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs no.2314/8 July 2004.

Here in the Mateiaș area, the Nămăiești Group - led by General Traian Găiseanu - with the 22nd and 12th Infantry Divisions, managed to resist a clearly superior enemy equipped and much better prepared, during the period 25 September/8 October-10/23 November 1916. Through the battles fought here, the advance of the Central Powers towards the Romanian Plain was stopped, but due to the breakthrough of the front on the Jiu the soldiers of the 2 divisions were ordered to withdraw - undefeated - on 16/29 November 1916, towards Târgoviște.