Today I will tell you about my visit to the Thracian tomb located in the Bulgarian city Kazanlak.
My friends and I were in town so we decided to go to the place and have a look.
To get there, we climbed high stairs surrounded by conifers.
On a platform there was a stone fountain from which clear water flowed.
Nearby there were recreation areas and a monument to the Bulgarian composer Emanuil Manolov.
We reached the original tomb, access to which is strictly limited.
In order to preserve its structure and the frescoes in it, it is embedded in an additional protective building and maintained by a special climate system.
Near the original tomb, a replica has been built and is open for visits. That's where we headed.
On one of the rain-soaked benches, a shaggy cat stood watching us.
In the visitor's part there is an exhibition hall in which the discovered finds are exhibited. They are of insignificant number, which is why it is assumed that the tomb was seized in ancient times.
I saw clay jugs, amphorae, wreath elements, fragments of wood from a burial bed and more.
There was a stall with books, pictures, cards and lots of souvenirs that could be bought.
The body of the tomb consists of a burial chamber with a beehive-bell-shaped dome and a corridor to it. The tomb is covered by a stone shirt, from which two parallel walls separate in front of the entrance of the dromos, forming a rectangular vestibule 2.60 m long and 1.84 m wide. The tomb is built of bricks, which in the dromos have a rectangular shape, and in the domed room they are trapezoidal. The latter served for the construction of rooms with a circular plan. The bricks in the tomb are bound together with a mortar composed of lime and sand.
sourse: wikipedia.org
Тhe rectangular vestibule:
The frescoes in the dome room showing:
individual moments of the earthly, military and posthumous life of the Thracian leader laid in it.
The visit was very interesting for me. I hope you liked it too.
