Well-preserved Bulgarian cave monastery

Trip Start May 13, 2012

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Flag of Bulgaria Aladzha Monastery, Varna, Bulgaria
Sunday, July 15, 2012

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Wonder how they got in & out of cave	Only remaining frescoes are chapel ceiling	Crypt where bodies were kept for 7 years	Painting showing the monastery layout
There are 100+ cave monasteries in Bulgaria	Cliff into which monastery was carved	Chapel with prayer niches in far wall	Stage evening light shows in the summer
You can practice your translation skills	Monastery now park of Golden Sands Nature Park	Community may have survived until 18th century	Aladzha comes from Turkish word for "colorful"
Second level dedicated entirely to chapel	I had cool audio guide in English	Nice walk through woods to catacombs	Pottery, coins & graffiti helped date Catacombs
Catacomb caves inhabited in 5th&6th centuries	Followed trail down to Golden Sands in distance	Fountain illustrating different Bulgarian eras

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very interesting...it must have taken years and years to carve out

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