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| Madara Horserider (UNESCO WHS #43) |
Monday, 24 November 2014
The Madara Rider!
Today I received a second UNESCO postcard, again a facebook swap, but this time from Veselin Nikolov in Bulgaia of the Madara Horserider. This site was inscribed onto the UNESCO World Heritage Site list at #43 in 1979.
The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria’s conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that occurred between AD 705 and 801.
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