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Today, the Entrance Gate remains intact and so does part of the fortification of the Free Besieged which was rebuilt by King Otto.

Past the gate, there is the Garden of Heroes where several famous and some anonymous heroes who fought during the Heroic Sortie are buried.

The Garden of Heroes is the equivalent of the Elysian Fields for modern Greece.

Every year the Memorial Day for the Exodus is celebrated on Palm Sunday ( the Sunday before Easter ); the Greek State is represented by high-ranking officials and foreign countries by their ambassadors.