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The wall of Dam Kardzhali


The dam wall is located around 1.5km from the last houses of Vazrozhdenci quarter of Kardzhali. It was built in the period 1957 – 1963 and is a unique forits time hollow arch-shaped construction. It is 103m high and 341m long. The dam lake is 20km long with volume of 532 million m3. A water power plant is built under the wall with average yearly power output of 164 million kWh.

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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