The village of Tatul – a lot of houses scattered among the rocky place, stone formations around them, and no sign that give a hint of the proximity of one of the most interesting ancient Thracian monuments in Bulgaria. The fortress is located at about 200 – 300 meters south from the village of Tatul. And the village itself is located at 15 km. northwest of Momchilgrad. There is no information when the local people have found the consecrated ground. Since 1981 the scientists from the local Astronomical Observatory in Kardjali have been exploring the place. The monument is compared by the archeologists with a monument found in Britain. There are some explanations: Tatul was not only a sanctuary place where the ancient Thracian divinitied sacrificed, but also a place from where they observed the sunrise and the sunset in determinating days of the year.

The sacred town of Perperikon is situated in the Eastern Rhodopi Mountains, about 15 km away from the town of Kardzali. It was built 8,000 years before the New Era. There are dozens of archaeological objects from different epochs in the nearby areas. According to research scientists, the sanctuary of Dionysius, described by Herodotus, is located here. The palace of Perperikon used to be a massive r-shaped building with thick walls. Some of the walls are cut out of natural rocks, where niches for the beams can still be seen. The construction is made with stone blocks, typical for the Megalythic building. About 200 meters of three-meter-wide stone steps lead up to the parade entrance with a well-preserved threshold. A few meters away from the palace the last excavation works discovered a large sacrificial altar for big animals and human oblations, quite common for that time. Five sarcophagi have been found on the lowest level of the palace, dug into the rock floor. There are some gift-niches next to the sarcophagi. A well-preserved stone pedestal in the western rooms suggests that there was once an altar above it. A crypt with 15 stone sarcophagi has been discovered in the northwest part of the palace.

This is one of the most famous monuments of Thracian culture, included in UNESCO’s list for world natural and cultural heritage. The tomb has a diameter of 2.65 m. and a height of 3.25 m. It was built with bricks, for which scientists assume were first used as building material by the Romans two centuries later. Blocks of stones and clay were used as a fastening material. The tomb has become world famous for its unique wall paintings, painted with wet fresco and distemper techniques. They cover an area of about 40 square meters and look like an exceptionally beautiful art gallery. The pictures are quite realistic, they show battles, daily scenes, funeral processions. The tomb dates back from the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. It is located in the north-east part of Kazanlak.

Near the village of Starosel, about 20 km away from the town of Hisar, is the largest in Southeastern Europe Thracian king’s complex with a temple-mausoleum. The temple is supposed to have belonged to the Thracian Tsar Sitalk, who lived about 440 B.C. You can reach the temple through a parade staircase with a monumental corridor, a cult platform and two chambers. The entrance is outlined with plates with plastic and colorful decoration. The inner room is a round dome-shaped chamber with semi-pillars and colored ornaments. The privies connected with the gods in this room. A king’s funeral has been discovered 30 meters away from the main temple. In the sarcophagus archaeologists have found a massive gold ring-seal with an image of a horse-rider, war armor, arrows, silver, bronze and well-preserved painted ceramic vessels.