The Georgi Stoykov Rakovski Pantheon

In the center of the town of Kotel rises an impressive white stone monument - "Pantheon of Rakovski and a museum of Renaissance", opened on October 10, 1981 wide staircase leads to the Pantheon marble sarcophagus, where they find peace bone oktanki Georgi Sava Rakovski (1821 -1867) The.

Born in Kotel named Sabi Stoykov Popovich, Georgi Rakovski is the founder of organized natsionalnorevolyutsionna struggle for the liberation of Bulgaria. Furthermore, revolutionary and tactician who led a detachment in the mountain in 1854, and in 1861 issued a "Plan for the liberation of Bulgaria", and in 1862 in Belgrade, the First Bulgarian Legion, Rakovski is also a historian, ethnographer and writer which publishes books, issue papers and writes on topics of public life.