1. Aetos fortress or "Kalén" is located between Pamporovo
and Smolyan.Built in the sixth century during the First
and Second Bulgarian kingdom is usually used as a
settlement without security features after the invasion of
the Turks abandoned.
2. fortress above Smolyan may be the largest fortress in the
Rhodope Mountains. grounds for this are recent findings
archaeologist Damian Damianov that during the
excavations in 2006, encountered a new entrance in the
north-severoiztok.Ot saddle ridge Sokolitsa splits. Eastern
was completed with five sharp towering cliffs. The highest
of them is called "Flat Stone" because its top is flat
flattened. When it rises a Byzantine fortress called by
locals Kalén. In the years of the Turkish invasion in the
ruins of the fortress hiding men and women and the
elderly with "Draw a stone." In even precipitous scree
stones flew, trees and torches. Beleaguered defenders were
doomed to hunger and thirst. The existing castle was
seized.
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4. Information about places to tour takers from various sources, but mostly collected from sites and in most cases not
one but several so thanks to all who post on the net, right where everything is free and places like this need to be
promoted. I guess people have written on the net are satisfied when their work is distributed. All photos are my
copyright. Allow all who decide to publish my pictures and text with no commercial purpose to use them, it can only
make me happy.
