They say that in Rhodope one can taste the immortality once the desire is strong enough. Here, on this land, the sunrise and the sunset, the heaven and the earth, the water and the wind make the reunion between men and gods possible. Even today, on the sides of this dignified mountain, the footsteps of Romans and Thracians resonate. Rituals and legends about the bewitching lyre of Orpheus and Dionysus’s Bacchanals come to life again from the ancient sanctuaries. The giants-pine-trees cast heavy, cool shades here. Cold brooks wash out the tracks of hooves, chime bells echo over the pastures, and high up the mountain, where the hills turn into pinnacles, the songs of the nymphs are roaming. For thousands of years, the natives lived in harmony with the nature. They have worshipped Mother Nature, they have read the weather with the aid of the sun and the rock, and they have discovered new, intact beautiful spots.
Kardzhali Region is about sharing the nature, the culture and the traditions. An experience that forever will be in your memory!
"St. Ivan Rilski" church in Krumovgrad was built in 1934. It was consecrated on 30.10.1938 by Kiril, the metropolitan from Ploviv who later became Patriarch of the ...
Read moreThe plant is included in the Bulgarian Plant Red Data List. The scientific name of silivryak is Haberlea rodopenzis (Haberlea rhodopensis) – the discoverer, the Hungarian botanist Emmerih Frivaldski, gave ...
Read moreThe monument was erected in memory of those who were killed in a battle with the Turkish cavalrymen in 1913. .It is the figure of a soldier with an ...
Read more"St. Athanasius" Church in Chernichevo village was built in the years 1847-1848, with the permission of the Turkish authorities. Ginyo Ginev, a wealthy man from the village, came up with ...
Read moreDzhenda Game Hunting Land occupies an area of 21,489 ha, includes two forest complexes, located on two different mountain ranges.The landscape of the western one is typically mountainious with ...
Read moreSeveral caves of varying sizes have been registered near the village of Kremen. The larger ones are the Golden Pit, The Nameless Cave, The Kremenska Cave, The Water pit, The ...
Read moreThe site can be approached from the perlite quarry, which passes near the old Roman road. The castle is located about 2 km south of the quarry, on a low ...
Read moreThe tomb is approximately 3 x 4 meters and there is one grave in it. According to a legend, Seid Baba , who died in a holy war,was buried ...
Read moreThe rock tomb by Yagnevo is a testimony of the presence of Thracian tribes in the area at the end of the second millennium BC.An arched niche with irregular shape ...
Read moreThe Tracian rock niches are great megalithic monuments, which, in Bulgaria, can be found only in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains. They are carved in vertical rocks. There are two hypotheses ...
Read moreThe site area is 44,623.98 hectares and encompasses the catchment area of The Byala River (the White River) in the furthermost south-eastern part of the Eastern Rhodope Mountains, next ...
Read moreThere is a religious complex with a small waterfall, a stone passageway and water falling on the rocks. It is near the beehive tomb (Punar Kaya), near ...
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