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Visiting the North-East of Bulgaria in summer includes obligatorily a passage as well as a halt on the historic site of Demir Baba Teke.
Initially because the site is pleasant and picturesque: a green valley which leads to the Danube, trees everywhere, a river downwards.
After having descended 214 steps you will end takes place mystical where is the mausoleum of Demir Baba a saint of the 16th century.
You will be surprised to note the presence of a multitude of ends of linen hang to the trees along the descent towards the site. It is about a belief which consists to hang to the tree part of the dress covering the sick place of the body.
The tomb itself is a building built in heptagonal local sandstone form. There is a rectangular lower anteroom which is covered with a 11 meters height hemispherical dome. Demir Baba is in the middle of the interior premise heptagonal. Built out of bricks and wood, it fleshfly measures 3,70 meters length and is positioned south-western. The sarcophagus is generally entirely covered by linens and flowers continuations has gifts of the pilgrims.
The mausoleum is supposed to be built at the 16th century on what was probably an old Thrace site. The characteristics which survived until today are the mausoleum and the crowned source.
Demir Baba Teke was proclaimed cultural monument of local importance in 1970. The mausoleum was renovated in 1991-1994: the wood floor in decomposition was replaced by a new floor.
The road to Demir Baba Teke :
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