This monument is located next to the Japanese Gardens, next to Herăstrău Park, and dates back to 1936 to celebrate both the Romanian War of Independence and World War I.
The arch is located in the same location as a previous wooden version built in haste to celebrate the victory in the War of Independence when the nation erupted from the Ottoman Empire in 1878.
This was replaced by another wooden arch after World War I, while the current monument contains reliefs carved by Constantine Barracci, the first Roman sculptor in the 1930s.
