Bulgarian Properties
Area Info - Shabla Cape & The
Lighthouse
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The coastal strip in the area of
the Shabla cape is strewed with
archaeological monuments. The
accidental finds, the rescue
excavations, carried out during
the period 1976 – 1980, and
underwater researches prove the
existence on this place of a
considerable classical
settlement, having appeared at
the end of V century B.C. and
having survived until the end of
about VI century.
It's been almost a century that
it has been with identified
Portus Caria /Caron Limen/.
The most – imposing
architectural remains originate
from a late classical
fortification situated on the
cape itself, next to the south
of the Shabla lighthouse.
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The west side of the fortification has
dimensions of 12 х 60 m. The west side of
the north fortress wall has been examined
from the outside facade in 1978-79. Its
thickness is almost 2 m, the preserved
height - 1.80 m.
In 1995 drill archaeological researches were
conducted, through which the course was
asserted of the west fortress wall and the
south-west tower was partially examined. The
site was declared a Monument of culture at
1985 by the National Institute for monuments
of culture.
The late classical fortification of the
Shabla cape represents an object of interest
for tourists. The area of its location, its
immediate proximity to the oldest lighthouse
along the Black sea coast - the Shabla one
and the only oil rig make it attractive for
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Data preserved in
archives and old descriptions of our Black
sea coast show that it has probably been one
of the oldest lighthouses ever along the
Black sea. The presence
of a lighthouse on the Shabla cape was
necessary because of the underwater reef
with a length of about 2 m., situated in
proximity, as well as some shallows between
Shabla and Tyulenovo. The present-day tower
of the lighthouse was built during the
Crimean War and opened for exploitation on
15.07.1856. The construction of the Shabla
cape was considered by the Ottoman
government as an exceptionally important
state building and it ordered the sultan's
tugra /monogram/ to be built in, which had
been done very rarely and only after the
personal approval of the sultan. This tugra
has been lying on the lighthouse tower up to
this day and deciphered says: „Me, Abdul
Medzhid, son of Mahmud, always a winner”.
The lighthouse tower consists of a square
four-wall base on which an eight-wall
pyramid rises. Its height without the
lantern is of 28.23 m. The only change from
the period of the opening of the lighthouse
for exploitation until present is the tying
round of the tower with an iron construction
after the earthquake on these places in
1901.
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South of cape Shabla, in the rocky
coast are situated several colonies
of caves. The largest caves of the
Kalachkyoyska colony are the
“Shееp’s Cave” and the “Leaky Cave”.
The “Ladder Cave”- one has to walk
in it through 11 cut in the wall
stairs. It is easily accessible, but
a part of it is demolished.
South of Tyulenovo there are plenty
of caves, situated in the rocks,
most of them high above the shore,
accessible through slippery paths or
by water. In the cave “Halkana” were
found 16 cauldrons, artificially
digged into the floor.
The cave “Mechata Maara” is situated
on the sea itself. Its height is 4
m. and its length is 126 m. The sea
comes into it and а sand beach is
formed at its bottom. Its dome is
rectangular. Unfortunately it is
accessible only from the sea. |
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