Stone mushrooms is a natural phenomenon in bulgaria.It is located 1 km from the village of beli plast, on the road between the towns of haskovo and kardzhali.These rocks are natural limestone formations with height of up to 3 meters, which occupy an area of about 30 acres.
Their age exceeds 70 million years the formation started in the cenozoic era. Ice age relocated the large masses of rocks from another area.Thus, much stronger limestone, uncharacteristic for this region, appeared over the previous layer.Then,nature placed the lake on this place, which began to wash away these rocks. So,different material of rocks explains the unevenness of erosion, which like a sculptor has carved such original mushrooms of stone.Legs were formed from the local limestone, and the hats from the stronger material of the ice age.Mushrooms vary in shape and color pink, black and blue.
A legend says that once upon a time the local blacksmith radun had 4 daughters.They always helped their father and carried water from the river outside the fortress of perperikon. One day, as usual the girls went to the river and saw the army of enemies approaching the village.The girls ran back to warn the locals about the impending trouble.They managed to close the gate and the enemies were not able to go inside.
After a few days, the traitor let the army of enemy attack the village and all of its residents were captured.Daughters of the blacksmith were also in captivity, but managed to escape. Invaders gave chase and caught the girls.One of the invaders was so cruel that grabbed one of the sisters and cut off the poor girls head.At the same moment when the head touched the ground,it turned into a stone resembling a mushroom.He killed the other girls in the same way and everything repeated their heads turned into the stones mushrooms.The invader was so frightened that he decided to run away,but he took one step and also turned into stone. They released all the prisoners and left the village forever
