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Religious Site Attractions In Trigrad

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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 1.2 kilometres from the village of Trigrad at 1,450 metres above sea level and ha...
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Religious Site Attractions In Trigrad

  • 1. Rozhen Monastery Melnik
    The Rozhen Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God is the biggest monastery in the Pirin Mountains in southwestern Bulgaria, nestled in the Melnik Earth Pyramids. It is one of the few medieval Bulgarian monasteries well preserved until today. The earliest archaeological evidence of medieval life at the place is a grave with a few coins and decorations from the time of Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos . Some other items also date to the 13th century while the marble frieze above the central gate of the church dates to the 13th or 14th century. A couple of new buildings were constructed in the monastery at the time of Despot Alexius Slav. The earliest written source testifying to the monastery's existence is a note on a chant book from 1551, today in the Great Lavra library ...
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