Kara Kaya Sanctuary

Megalithic rock sanctuary "Kara Kaya" - Western Rhodopes

In two centers - up to the rocky peak in the form of a pyramid and down the river were concentrated cult activities in the remarkable rock sanctuary "Kara Kaya, located in the springs of the river Vishteritsa in the Western Rhodopes. Ceramics refers broadly to the second half of I mil. Rock clearance at the top are round and medullary form. Felling is remarkable rock-shaped horse-shoe, and it shaped stone boat - targeted exactly to the west. Both are clearing peculiar rock altars. North to the natural rock pyramid architecture of bats was now in ruins.

Shore of the river Vishteritsa is a great rock altar, roughly shaped like fish and stone archway. Both megalithic monuments were marked with round stone clearance (Markov, V., Gotsev, Al., Yankov, A. Sacral space in Ancient Thrace. Blagoevgrad: Neofit Rilski University Press, 2003, Markov, V. Cultural heritage and succession. Heritage of ancient pagan sacred places in Bulgarian folk culture. Blagoevgrad: Neofit Rilsky University Press, 2007; Gotsev 2004: Gotsev, A. Thracian Cult Places in West Rhodopa Mountains During the I Millennium BC Some Aspects of Their Surveys. - In: Art and Culture with no Limits. Blagoevgrad: Neofit Rilski University Press, 2004, p. 15-24).

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