STAROSEL THRACIAN CULT CENTERIF YOU WANT TO MAKE A SHORT OUTING AMIDST NATUREAND SEE THE REMAINS OF ANCIENT CULTURE THEN VISITTHE VILLAGE OF STAROSEL WHICH IS LOCATED NEARHISARYA. HERE IS SITUATED THE ANCIENT THRACIANTUMULUS IN WHICH WAS FOUND A THRACIAN TEMPLESINCE 5 4TH CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST. IT IS SUPPOSEDTHAT THE THRACIAN RULER HAD BEEN BURIED IN IT.THE TEMPLE HAS BEEN A CULT COMPLEX AND HASEXQUISITE ARCHITECTURE AND GRANDEUR. A VIEWTOWARDS THE WHOLE OF THRACE OPENS OUT FROM IT.THE ENTRANCE OF THE SANCTUARY IS ABOUT 1. 60METERS WIDE AND IS PROPPED UP WITH PROCESSEDLIMESTONE COLUMNS, WHICH ARE DECORATED WITHDIFFERENT ORNAMENTS. THE EXTERIOR OF THE TEMPLEIS STEP LIKE THE STEPS ARE NINE, THE LOWEST ONEIS THE HIGHEST, AND EACH NEXT STEP IS LOWER.THERE IS A SUPPOSITION THAT THERE HAVE STOODSTONE LIONS ON THE PEDESTALS BUT THEY HAVE BEENSTOLEN BYTREASURE HUNTERS..................................20 KMARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUMYOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THE RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE OFHISARYA IF YOU VISIT THE ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. ITHAS TWO EXPOSITIONS ARCHEOLOGICAL ANDETHNOGRAPHIC, AND ITS EXPONENTS ARE LOCATED INFIVE HALLS AND A YARD. THERE IS A LAPIDARIUM,TOO. IN THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SECTOR ARE SHOWNVALUABLE EXPONENTS FROM DIFFERENT EPOCHS, WHICHHAVE LEFT THEIR UNFORGETTABLE MARK ON THE RESORTTOWN. THE EXHIBITED KNIVES, STONE AXES, CLAYUTENSILS WILL CARRY YOU BACK TO THE PREHISTORICPAST THE THRACIAN AND ROMAN CULTURE YOU WILLFIND IN THE UNIQUE PLASTICS, COINS, CHURCHBELONGINGS AND OTHER. TRAVERSING THE MUSEUM HALLSYOU WILL PASS THROUGH THE EARLY BYZANTINE PERIOD,MIDDLE AGES AND YOU WILL REACH THE BULGARIANREVIVAL, ALL EXHIBITED IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC PARTOF THE MUSEUM. THE ARTICLES ON SHOW FROM THE LIFESTYLE FARMING IMPLEMENTS, CLOTHING AND FABRICS WILL REVEAL YOU IN DETAILS THE LIFE OF THE OLDBULGARIANS THEIR DAILY ROUND, WORKING, HOLIDAYSAND CUSTOMS...........................0,5 KMKLISURAYOU CAN MAKE AN INTERESTING EXCURSION TO T