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Extract from the Belogradchik Travel Guides:
Lying in a bowl beneath the hills just east of the Serbian border,
BELOGRADCHIK
(literally "small white town") gives its name to Bulgaria's most spectacular rock formations, the
Belogradchishkite skali
, which cover an area of 90 square kilometres to the west. The limestone rocks greatly impressed French traveller Adolph Blanqui in 1841, who described them as an "undreamt landscape" rising to heights of 200m in shades of scarlet, buff and grey, with shapes suggestive of "animals, ships or houses, Egyptian obelisks" and "enormous stalagmites".
The towering rocks near...
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