With an entrance, resembling a devil’s head with a waterfall rushing down its throat, the cave is ten kilometers long and five stories in height, this cave features remarkable natural formations including pipe-like stalactites, cave pearls, “leopard’s skin” and hanging stalactone. The Yagodina Cave is located in the Buynovo Gorge near the Rhodoope village of Yagodina. It is one of the most famous and most-visited caves in Bulgaria. Artifacts from the Neolothic Age have been discovered, among these finds are earthenware plates, earthenware oven, etc., produced by the clay from the cave. After the cave mouth was excavated and restored, it was turned into a museum exhibit. A legend tells, that the god of the underworld was fascinated by Orpheus’s magic music and singing, and his love to Euridice, and decided to bring the couple back to the world of the living. But he has set a condition – the musician couldn’t look at his beloved until they come out of the realm of the dead. The worry that Eurydice might not follow him, Orpheus turned back, and the nymph had to return to the world of the dead again. It is this legend that recreates with a fiery spectacle during the mysteries every year in the Devil’s Throat Cave.
INNOVIMENTOR (Balkan-Mediterranean)
