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Seven girls built a mosque without nails

The mosque in the Podkova (Horseshoe) is a wooden building. The building has a unique construction technology. It brings about an interesting legend. Seven girls from long-vanished village Ramollar decided not to marry but to devote themselves to the faith. They sold their dowry money and bought logs. Ported them on the way back from Mount Gyobren. Built a mosque for a night without using a single nail. Then the girls disappeared.
The mosque is currently operational. Every Friday there are believers gather 200-250 Horseshoe and surrounding villages.
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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