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Churches - The monastery of “St. John the Precursor”

The monastery of “St. John the Precursor” is situated in the centre of the town Kardzhali.
And the location of the monastery ” St. Yoan Prodrom ” is the “ Veselchane” residential district
A restored Medieval monastery complex dating back to the 9th – 14th century. A cleric’s remains as well as his symbols and materials /gold-woven shroud/ had been found in a preserved tomb which is located in the narthex of the church. The church is restored and some of the wall-paintings are preserved. It exists and functions nowadays.




Monastery "St. Yoan Prodrom"
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The sone mushrooms (video)

Those rock formations are located east of Beli plast village by the road connecting Kardzhali with Haskovo. To preserve them in 1974, they were designated as a natural monument with area of 30 decares. They area harmonic rock pieces resembling gigantic mushrooms with pink stumps and greenish hoods shaped in rhyolithic volcanic tuffa. The height of the stumps and width of the hoods reaches up to 2.5m. The variable coloring of the mushrooms results from the different mineral inclusions. It took millions years continuous sun, wind and rain to shape that wonderful composition. A legend says that these rocks are the chopped heads of four sisters, who refused to obey a tyrannical master. Note: The site