Ivanovo Rock-Hewn Churches

Ruse · Bulgaria

Ivanovo Rock-Hewn Churches, Bulgaria
Photo: Hans A. Rosbach, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A complex of medieval rock churches and monastic cells cut high into limestone cliffs along the Rusenski Lom, famed for exquisite fourteenth-century frescoes. The painted chapels cling to sheer rock above the river gorge. It formed a large monastic settlement.

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