Rila monastery 10

Rila monastery 9

Rila monastery 8

Rila monastery 7

One of my favorites.

Rila monastery 6

Rila monastery 5

Rila monastery 4

Rila monastery 3

Rila monastery 2

New postcards from Rila monastery, Bulgaria

The royal tomb

Anouther view of the inside chamber of the tomb. This is the last postcard I brought from the information centre. I can't beleive they have only six different postcards there! Here is the official site of the Thracian tomb of Sveshtari - http://getika.com

The Sveshtary royal tomb

An inside view of the Sveshtary tomb with the women figures. The tomb is known mainly by its women figures, which are called caryatids, allthought they are not exactly this. The most curious thing for me starting doing my diploma was that a lot of bulgarians don't know the tomb which is impossible I tought! Most of them don't even know the list of the UNESCO sites in Bulgaria! So tell me, how can we preserve our cultural heratage when we don't even know about it?

The Sboryanovo archeologic preserve

This is one of the bulgarian UNESCO sites and consists of two large tombs nekropolis in one of the biggest of which in 1982 was found the big royal tomb of Sveshtari in the Ginina tumulus. (it's called Ginina, because It was in the ground of grandmother Gina :). This is an unique tracian tomb from the 3th centurary B.C.

Some pictures from inside of Demir Baba teke

You can see here the mural paintings inside the "teke", the grave of the saint and the sacred spring which must be sacred from the tracian times.

Demir Baba teke

I went in Sboryanovo on friday with my boyfriend and a friend of us. We went to see the tracian tombs, which I'll show you after, but they didn't wanted to see the muslim tomb, which was also built on the remains of an old tracian sanctuary.

The "teke" with the rock

This is a muslim tomb of the Iron father - Demir Baba. It's near Isperikh town in NE Bulgaria in the Sboryanovo archeologic preserve.

Sozopol - a fold in three postcard with a panoramic view of old Sozopol

Sozopol is a tourist place on the Black sea coast near Burgas and was once a greek village.

Anouther postcard from Sozopol

Sozopol

This is "Black sea" hotel

The card is new but uses an older one.

Other cards from the same friends

They are from Stara Zagora in central Bulgaria, as you may see from the name on the card. :)