Hiking Belogradchik Rocks & Fortress - best hiking in North Bulgaria | Белоградчик крепость и скалы

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Driving through Belogradchik (улицы города)
01:34 Arriving at the fortress (подъезжаем к крепости)
01:57 Walking through the fortress (внутри крепости)
04:04 The view from the top (вид на долину сверху)
07:08 Hiking around Belogradchik Rocks (треккинг под крепостью)
10:16 The map (карта)

𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗘𝗘 & 𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦

лв6 (€3) per person

📍 Belogradchik, 3900, Bulgaria
🌎 43.6232, 22.6778


𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

Белоградчик – «белый город» на севере Болгарии. Получил свое название из-за удивительных скал. Над долиной поднимаются вверх величественные каменные колонны. Белоградчикские скалы – уникальная природная достопримечательность, что входит в список 100 национальных туристических объектов Болгарии. На вершине скал, над городом Белоградчик, возвышается древняя крепость «Калето». Вокруг живописные долины, горы, глубокие пещеры.
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Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends. 

The Belogradchik rocks form a 3 km wide and 30 kilometer long strip, and the rock formations reach some 200 meters in height.

Each rock formation bears a name: Adam and Eve, The Schoolgirl, The Bear, The Shepherd boy, The Dervish, The First slabstone, The Camel, The Mushrooms, The Cuckoo, The Red wall, The Madonna, The Horseman, The Monks, The Mental stone, Rebel Velko, The Pine stone and so on, and each one comes with a story.

They were formed at the bottom of a sea as the product of compression (they began 230 million years ago as sediment at the bottom of a shallow sea) and then erosion over the last 45 million years.

The rocks, made largely of limestone, also hold hundreds of caves, including Magura Cave where the bones of prehistoric species like cave bear or cave hyena have been discovered, as have cave paintings dating from 10,000 BC - 600 BC.

Among two of the most famous and most curious legends surrounding the rocks are that of the Madonna and the Schoolgirl.

In the legend of the Madonna, a beautiful nun falls in love with a man on a white horse, gets pregnant, is cast out by the monks. As she is leaves the nunnery, day turns to night and all: Madonna, monks, man on the white horse are turned to stone forming the rocks.

The schoolgirl’s legend is remarkably similar. It also concerns a beautiful girl. Her love interest is a blacksmith, and this time she is being chased by the schoolmaster and runs into a bear, and... BOOM! As before, all are turned to stone.

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