Description of the attraction
Eagle Rocks are located about two kilometers from Ardino and thirty kilometers southwest of Kardzhali, a city in southern Bulgaria. This ancient monument of Thracian culture is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria and an object of great interest for tourists from all over the world interested in ancient culture.
A hundred niches with a depth of eight to twelve centimeters have been carved into the rock (at the moment, visitors can only observe 97, the rest have been destroyed by now). Scientists believe that the dating of these niches dates back to about the first century BC and that they had a purpose related to the administration of religious needs, were used in the process of cult ceremonies. In addition, ceramic fragments were found under the rocks, dating by archaeologists to about the fifth - fourth millennium BC. The most likely version is that the niches were rock tombs, the place where the Thracians placed the ashes of their dead relatives.
Eagle Rocks are now declared a natural landmark.
