IF APARTHOTEL CASTLE IS YOUR CHOICE FOR A SUMMERVACATION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO WALK ABOUT THELEGENDARY MOUNTAIN AND MAY BE EVEN FOLLOW THESTEPS OF THE MYTHICAL SINGER ORPHEUS. MOUNTAINGUIDES ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR HIKING NEEDS.DURING THE SUMMER SEASON ALL THE GUESTS OF THEHOTEL WILL BE OFFERED THE FOLLOWING EXCURSIONSAND ENTERTAINMENTSYAGODINSKA CAVE / THERE ARE ABOUT 140 CAVES ANDKARST FORMS FOUNDED IN THE DISTRICT OF IAGODINSKACAVE. THE CAVE IS ELECTRICIVATED AND PASSABLE / .THE YAGODINSKA CAVE IS THE PEARL IN THE CROWNOF THE RHODOPI MOUNTAINS. IT IS SITUATED NEARBUYNOVSKA RIVER AND IS A PART OF THE UNIQUE KARSTOF BUYNOVSKO GORGE. IT IS 10 KM LONG AND 5STORIES TALL, WITH MANY LABYRINTHS AND ABYSSESINSIDE. ELECTRIC LIGHTS MAKE THE MYSTERIOUSFORMATIONS DRAPERIES, PIPE LIKE STALACTITES,CAVE PEARLS, LEOPARDS SKIN AND HANGINGSTALACTONE VISIBLE ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS. ANIRON STAIRCASE LEADS TO A HALL NAMED RAZLOMNAWHERE THE REAL BOTTOM OF THE UNDERGROUND RIVER ISCOVERED WITH HUGE BLOCKS. THE UPPER FLOOR WASWELL KNOWN TO ANCIENT ENEOLOITHIC INHABITANTS /14 13 CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST / , SIGNS FROM THEMWERE FOUND NEAR THE 30 METERS ABYSS. IF YOU WISHYOU CAN VISIT THE ENEOLOITHIC DWELLINGS, WHICHARE SITUATED 10 MIN FROM THE ARTIFICIAL ENTRANCEOR THE DEVILS BRIDGE / ROCK FORMATION /.................................45 KMBACHKOVO MONASTERYBACHKOVO MONASTERY RANKS SECOND ONLY TO RILAMONASTERY BOTH WITH REGARD TO SIZE, ANDARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. IT IS SITUATED 30 KM.FROM PLOVDIV IN BACHKOVO VILLAGE. ACCORDING TOTHE HISTORIANS IT WAS FOUNDED DURING BYZANTINESLAVERY IN 1083. ITS FOUNDERS ARE TWO GEORGIANBROTHERS GRIGORII AND APASII BAKURIANI. IN HISFIEFS, GRIGORII BUILT A MONASTERY, DEVOTED TO THEWOMAN MOTHER AND CALLED IT PETRICHKI. THEMONASTERY HAD A RAPID HISTORY. IT WAS ATTACKEDAND ROBBED MORE THAN ONCE. ITS BLOOM WAS DURINGTHE 13TH CENTURY, MORE PRECISELY DURING THE REIGNOF TZAR IVAN ALEXANDER / THE SECOND CHURCH DON