Thracian megalithic culture in Strandzha

The area of the park "Strandzha" and its contact zone represent a unique collection of monuments of spiritual and material culture from international, national and local significance. Almost anywhere cultural evidences from the Eneolithic and Bronze Age, Thracian megalithic culture, antiquity, Middle Ages, the Bulgarian Revival and the Bulgarian most recent history, and what is more, such dense concentration is rare in Europe. Unique of its kind phenomena are the sunk settlements in the Bulgarian aquatory of the Black Sea. Sites of marine origin are located in the adjoining territory of the park, in the bays of Varvara, Ahtopol, Sinemorets, Silistar and north of the mouth of the river Rezovska, which are direct evidence for a developed Thracian civilization with active navigation, shipbuilding, economic and trade relations, far before the Greek colonization. So far, more than 450 monuments have been found on the territory of the park, of which 20 dolmens, 24 mound necropolises, 11 independent tumuluses, 2 unique dome tombs, 13 ancient medieval villages, 17 fortresses, ancient roads, 83 chapels and a historical place of national importance - the site Petrova Niva (Peter’s Field). The territory of the park has 280 architectural and artistic cultural monuments, of which 18 churches and 268 Bulgarian Revival houses and 4 historical monument indicating the Ilinden- Preobrazhensko Uprising.