- Aladzha Monastery is the most famous rock monastery on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, one of the numerous monks’ dwellings that functioned in the 13th...
- The name of Aladzha monastery comes from the Turkish word for colorful (“aladzha”) due most probably to the bright colors of its wall paintings.
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- In 1927, Aladzha Monastery was pronounced an open authentic landmark and in 1968 it was proclaimed a design social landmark of national centrality.
- Nowadays Aladzha Monastery does not function and no monks live there. It is a national monument of culture and a museum.
- Aladzha Monastery is a cave complex situated in a beautiful green area in the centre of Golden Sands Nature Park.
- The Aladzha monastery has an unusual architecture and a lot of legends about hidden treasures and the ghosts of monks, who haunt the ruins.
- Nearby, remains of a 5th-century cave monastery have been found. A cave monastery may have existed not far from the modern monastery Aladzha, near Varna.