The Belogradchik Rocks were nominated to participate in the world campaign New Seven Wonders of Nature

Any one who sets eyes on the natural wonder called Belogradchik Rocks and contemplates the red rocks, which moulded over the centuries most bizarre figures of people and animals, will exclaim before this wonder of nature. Even 200 years back this natural phenomenon inspired travellers such as Gerome Blanqui, Felix Kanitz, Konstantin Jirecek. In 1841 the French scholar Gerome Blanqui was the first to describe the fantastic rock vision with the words: “Neither the famous Ollioules gorges in Provence, the Pincarbo defile in Spain, the Alps, the Pyrenees, nor the most ancient mountains of Tirol and Switzerland possess anything that could be compared to what I have seen in Belogradchik.” The red rocks with bizarre images of people and animals stirred enthusiasm in the Czech historian Konstantin Jirecek, too. “No words can describe it. This must be seen!” Hungarian geographer and scholar Felix Kanitz wrote in detail what he saw at Belogradchik in his book Danubian Bulgaria.

The Belogradchik Rocks have been described by many Bulgarian writers and poets. “Before the fantastic visions of the Belogradchik Rocks human fantasy is robbed, absolutely robbed with all its whims,” Anton Strashimirov wrote in the beginning of last century.

Like personages from a fabulous stone world the Belogradchik Rocks surround the town on the west, south and southwest. If you are coming down the road from Sofia you first see the silhouettes of Falkovets-Borovitsa group with Momina Skala (Maiden’s rock), Pchelin Kamak (Bee rock), Torlak, Borovishki Kamak, etc.