Price: Mount Pogledets or Mount Rock is located in the Rila and is 2,691 meters high . Good starting point for the ascent is Ribni Lakes . The route is generally not difficult and takes about 2 hours in good weather conditions . Displacement along this route is about 450 m
Another starting point , we recommend that a hut Macedonia. Pass through Angelov peak , Mount hazel slap , and Mount Black Meadow .
Nearby is the last hermits cave of Saint Ivan of Rila. Here are the mountain resorts of Beli Iskar , Borovets, Maliovitsa, Semkovo .
The peak Pogledets where in quiet breeze leaves flutter old beeches and legends , lies , according to popular belief , the last Bulgarian tsar of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - Shishman ! In Christian tradition , his grave is facing east.
Christians and Muslims have adopted this place sacred and worshiped the majesty of King Shishman with their customs. Eye sight of the people of this region , I noticed that they went there every Friday Muslims worship , and each bore of the Iskar River a stone . They placed it on the grave , kindle candles, incense stuffy ... This makes a faith that must accumulate many stones , lest the king ever to come out of the grave, because it means that we will regain the kingdom from the Turks. Bulgarian Christians even went night late in the night and threw stones back into the river. So could never build up ! Still, people believed that the king will rise again and reclaim the kingdom.
There, in the top sticks and old fortress, which all respected the legacy of King Shishman ...
Near this place is the Black Lake . Turks call it Kara gyol. According to legend , when the king perished and living Wars lost all hope of survival, gathered everything precious that belonged to the king - the scepter , weapon and other crown jewels and threw them into the lake.
Population believed to live in the Black Lake Bittern that destroyed every once came to the water. Others believed that this lake live Villas fairies , Judas , who also jealously guard its waters and do not give a soul to go near shore.
Proud Rila stands as a guard over the dark waters of the lake and makes a spell . Birds dart from their nests and their shadows sew reprise on mirror surface and the trees cast a shadow over the mirrored waters and everything becomes a whole !
Eyes can not be satisfied to see this splendor of nature and man exclaimed suddenly - how exactly are relegated name on top - Pogledets .
A peasant - good and quiet - glorified the beauty of its end and is told stories about him and King Shishman , and so they remember to these days !
- Mountain Peak
