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.
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The 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 ...
The house is composed of two parts - the old, built more than a 150 years ago and a newer one, a large two-storey part, whose construction began ...
The church is located on Otec Paissi Str. nearby the school with the same name and is a functioning religious temple. It is a three-nave cruciform dome church with built ...
The zone comprises valleys around the Krumovitsa River and the flowing into it the Dyushun dere River along with the surrounding hills and slopes of the ...
The 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 ...
At the very entrance of the town of Kardzhali, coming down from the towns of Haskovo and Plovdiv, majestic stands the statue of Orpheus - the ancient Greek mythical ...
It is a rock tomb that very much resembles a rock window. It is located about 200 meters east of the "Mal Ezer" fortress in direction to the nearby Asar ...
Momchil has been living in folk songs and legends over the centuries. He is one of the first fighters against the Ottoman invasion in the 14th century. Momchil ...
"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 ...
A few rock-hewn graves have been discovered about 200-300 metres below the summit where the Monyak fortress is situated.They have a quadrangual layout and trapezoidal vertical and horizontal section. ...
It is located 700-800 metres northwest of Vodenicharsko village. On the southwest side of "Hambar Kaya ", there are the remains of two tombs, located 6.50 ...
The stone mushrooms are symmetrical rock pieces shaped as natural mushrooms, with pink stumps and greenish hoods. The height of the stumps and the width of the cap is 2.5 ...