Perushtitsa

The history of these places dates from the beginning of the 1st millenium the time of the old Thracian tribes.

There were found buried a waggon with horses, that are supposed to have participated in a funeral of a an important Thracian lord or merchant, buried in the hill. In 1851 in Perushtitsa came some Nikola Maradzhi from Tzarigrad(The old name of Istanbul) with permission to search some family treasure, that belonged to his father. But he couldn't find anything so he left the ground that he had to a poor farmer. Ironically this same old poor farmer found a metal girdle while he was ploghing. When they digged around they found a cart with some sceletons of two hourses along it. Before long the russian and the austrian ambassadors at that time in Plovdiv(the second biggest town in Bulgaria), N.Gerov and Berti, started digging where the dray was found.

The interesting about this hill-tomb was that there were found more than 30 little sculptures called idols. They represented gods, ghosts and other weird creatures.