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a court proto Bulgarian pagan sanctuary small churches and monasteries A staircase with 386 stairs cut in the rock goes up to the Madara plateau and to the fortress The Madara Horseman has always been enveloped in mystic even as early as the proto Bulgarians sacrificed oblational animals on the altar below Most likely is the name
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Madara Rider
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Madara Rider
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unique masterpiece comprises a life size rider a lion a dog and some Greek inscriptions There are and some maintains saying there is a cut snake either but way too effaced With his right hand the horseman has thrown a spear with a flag at the lion lying beneath the horse s front legs The man s right foot is put in a stirrup and there is also a dog
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epoch It brings to us distant legends Its value grows in even higher dimensions when you look at it in combination with the magnificent nature and cultural historical environment The Madara Rider has been listed in the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List of UNESCO in 1979 in Luxor Egypt
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once people believed that because of it the blind could see again And at present it is scientifically proved the water purge human s body and has a wholesome effect to the vision In the bottom of the cave lies a huge stone with three engraved cross Not only people with especial sensibility but almost everyone could feel the warmth of the stone
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Madara rider jpg
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to talk you about the Madara Rider Madara Horseman early medieval large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria near the village of Madara The relief depicts a majestic horseman 23 m above ground level in an almost vertical 100 metre high cliff The horseman facing right is thrusting a spear into a lion lying at his horse s
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