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The Trigrad Gorge is a canyon of vertical marble rocks in the Rhodope Mountains. It is in Smolyan Province, one of the southernmost provinces of Bulgaria.
The gorge encloses the course of the Trigrad River, which plunges into the Devil's Throat Cave and 530 metres further emerges as a large karst spring. It later flows into the River Buynovska.
The gorge's west wall reaches 300 metres in height, while the east one extends up to 300–350 metres. Initially, the two walls are about 300 m apart, but the gorge narrows to about 100 metres in the northern section. The gorge is 1,450 metres above sea level and has a total length of 7 kilometres. (Wikipedia)
We stopped here, just before a very long tunnel cut into the rock, to look for a Tawny Owl nest. Absolutely beautiful place!
Trigrad, Bulgaria. May 2016.
In 1444, the Ottoman Empire invaded Bulgaria, burning and raping their way across the country. Girls who were captured by the Ottomans were either kept for the pleasure of the officers or sent to join the Sultan’s harem at Constantinople. When the Ottoman army approached Cape Kaliakra, 40 local girls fled to the end of the headland with the intent of killing themselves. They tied their hair together to be sure that none of them would yield to their fear and jumped together from the 70 metres high cliff. A memorial obelisk known as ‘The Gate of the 40 Maidens’ now stands at the entrance to the cape.
Legend or true story?
Photo taken in the fortress on the cape
View from the Musala Peak (2925 meters) at dawn, towards the Pirin Mountains, painted by the first rays of the rising sun in red.
Kavarna (Bulgarian: Каварна), is a Black Sea coastal town and seaside resort in the Dobruja region of northeastern Bulgaria. It lies 64 kilometres northeast of Varna, 49 km from Dobrich and 43 km south of the border with Romania. It is the principal town of Kavarna Municipality, part of Dobrich Province. A little yacht port, a fishing base, a spacious beach and a resort complex exist in the town. The landmark Cape Kaliakra is located a few kilometers to the east, as is the tiny beachfront resort of Rusalka. During the 2000s, the town became famous with the annual Kaliakra Rock Fest featuring famous rock bands from around the world.
The town was founded in the 5th century BC by Ancient Greek colonists who settled on the Chirakman Plateau in the colony Byzone. During the 3rd and 2nd century BC, the town played an important mediating role between the local Thracian settlements and the Greeks. Despite being unsuitable for wharfing because of its rugged cliffs, this part of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast was an attractive centre due to the fact that the local people produced and traded high quality grain.
During the second part of the 1st century BC the ancient town fell in the sea because of a disastrous earthquake. The frontal part of the Chirakman broke off and together with the richest citizens fell into the Black Sea's waters.
During Roman times the town was restored under the same name and quickly flourished, the settlement revived and the port brightened up.
In the 7th century AD the Slavs and Asparuh's Bulgars destroyed the Byzantine town and later founded a new settlement, which entered the First Bulgarian Empire. In the late Middle Ages the settlement grew and was subject to Tatar raids; in the 14th century it became part of the Principality of Karvuna, which broke away from the Second Bulgarian Empire under the rule of the despots Balik and Dobrotitsa of the Bulgarian royal Terter dynasty. In 1397, the Ottoman Turks nearly destroyed the city, which was abandoned but resettled again and rebuilt by the early 17th century. Its present name was documented for the first time in the early 15th century.
The town was considered an economical and cultural centre during Antiquity and the Middle Ages with rich and various remains – stronghold walls, early-Christian basilica, medieval churches, and public buildings.
Between the 15th and 19th century the town becomes popular under the name Kavarna, as a Christian settlement and port for grain export. From that time remain a Turkish bath, a medieval necropolis, a bridge, fountains, Christian churches and many inscriptions.
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 Kavarna's Christian inhabitants, Bulgarians and Gagauz alike, rebelled against the bashi-bazouks and Circassian hordes. After the liberation the town became part of the Principality of Bulgaria.
From the beginning of 20th century Kavarna achieved a rapid progress as an economical and cultural centre. The town renamed Cavarna came under Romanian rule after the Second Balkan War in 1913 and again after the First World War in 1919. This however, was met with resistance by the local Bulgarian population and its Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation. In 1940 the town was ceded back to Bulgaria by the Treaty of Craiova. (Wikipedia)
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Beautiful view from our hotel out over the Black Sea. So much history in Bulgaria and yet most people come for the beautiful beach resorts in this area.
Kavarna, Bulgaria. May 2016.
Neophron Tours.
Bulgaria Plovdiv
The city with the logest history in Bulgaria. A city that is strange micture of very old, very old renoved and given a new role and extreme moderne cityscape who could be anywhere in the world
[EN] A Bulgarian village cat - she was extremely smart. While her siblings have survived only a few years in freedom, she has become relatively old for a village cat. She was extremely gentle and cuddly.
[DE] Eine bulgarische Dorfkatze - sie war extrem schlau. Während ihre Geschwister nur wenige Jahre in der Freiheit überlebt haben, ist sie für eine Freigängerin relativ alt geworden. Sie war extrem sanft und verschmust.
One of the amazing places, we will visit during our workshop this summer.Visit our: Photography workshops in Bulgaria
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