Thursday, January 9, 2014

Kaliakra Cape




Kaliakra (pronounced Kaliakra Greek Cal its Accra ) is long and narrow cape on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast , in the southeast part of the Dobruja plateau. Located near the villages Balgarevo and St. Nicholas , 12 km from Kavarna and 60 km northeast of Varna . Cape jutting 2 km into the sea and resembles Peninsula is a natural and archeological reserve and one hundred tourist sites Nose has a museum , a restaurant, a lighthouse , marine radar station , weather station and chapel.



Cape e rocky peninsula, which was released into the sea . It attracts the eye of tourists with its special silhouette. In it there are many natural caves that look like rooms . Since the last "room" in the rock opens arched window over precipices , where the waves of the Black Sea with loud splash crash around boulders accumulated beneath the narrow lip of the mountain nose. This part is called " door of forty girls ." The legend of the origin of this name reads:
A long time ago in an alien attack , the attackers managed to conquer the coastal settlements. They pillaged and plundered everything encountered along the way. Taken captive forty girls . Choose the most beautiful encountered . Took plenichkite peak cape and lock them into the last cave , leaving the guard to protect them from the entrance. As expected the evening to napalan huge fires and transmit beauties of the most prominent war as a reward for their bravery .

Girls gathered from different villages are not known , but the general evil fate bring them together as sisters . None of them wanted to be dishonored by the attackers. All day looking for a way to escape the fate that awaited them The bravest of them revealed their way through to save his honor , as indicated window and said there is salvation there, the sea will take us ! Some of the girls were frightened and began to cry aloud . But most of them pulled himself together and comforted her companions : no life for us , better clean die at sea than to fall into the hands of the soldiers.

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