🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Temple complex
Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ruse Province, Bulgaria
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🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Temple complex
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ruse Province, Bulgaria
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic to Late Antiquity (5000 BCE – 400 CE; rock city peak 1500–500 BCE) · Thracian (Bessi tribe) to Roman and Byzantine
Rocky massif on the Perperek gold–bearing ridge where Thracians carved a palace-temple complex into the living rock: hall of prophecies claimed as the sanctuary of Dionysus visited by Alexander…