Schumen

[MarZ, 07/22/2009] The last visit I paid to Madara was last autumn. I hadn’t been there since I was school girl and I remembered the place quite vaguely. We arrived at a road stop with a few coffee-shops and souvenir stalls. At first we didn’t see the horseman but in one of the coffee shops there is a binocular that points directly to it. After that you can spot it with bare eyes. The Madara Horseman is one of the acknowledged cultural symbols of Bulgaria. It is an early medieval large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the village of Madara, between the fo [more]