Minister Angelkova was guest of the final re-enactment of Beglik Tash for the 2016 summer season

20 August 2016

The Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova and the Primorsko Municipality’s mayor, Dimitar Germanov, were guests of the final re-enactment of Beglik Tash locality for this year’s summer season.

"Due to the Municipality’s consistent efforts, this locality ranks among the best examples of sustainable development in the area ", Minister Angelkova emphasized. Last year it welcomed some 60 000 tourists. This year yielded even better results, with the visitors exceeding last year’s number in August alone. The local government has put in place some extra attractions for the tourists, demonstrating ancient Thracian rituals and legends. The locality was also included in the information campaign of the Ministry of Tourism to promote domestic tourism and was labelled as one of the 50 little known national tourism sites.

The imposing megalith sanctuary Beglik Tash is a sacred space, featuring Thracian mounds, dolmens, and rock altars that have no parallel in Bulgaria. It is a natural rock ensemble of syenite boulders of various dimensions and forms, which formed as a result of rock weathering at the Rossen pluton.

The sanctuary, which is known as the Bulgarian Stonehenge, covers an area of 6 decares and is located 5 km north of Primorsko – in the middle of a thick deciduous forest within the area of the Pearl hunting residence, which once used to be off-limits to “mere mortals”. This precisely the reason why one of the biggest discoveries relevant to Thracian history along the Black Sea coast and Strandja area remained unknown to scholars and tourists until 2003. Surveys of the site only began in 2001 and were led by Bulgarian archaeologists Tsonya Drazheva and Dimitar Nedev. The cult to the Grand Mother Goddess and her son – the Sun –is believed to have been serviced here. Apart from its temple function, this place was also a calendar and a watch, which is attested by specific “steps” carved into the rocks and a stone grouping dividing the day into parts. 

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