Chudnite Mostove (The magnificent
Bridges) a rock phenomenon situated near the Zabardo village West Rhodope
mountain,Bulgaria. The "bridges" were shaped by the destructive
activity of the once high-water river. It transformed the marble clefts into a
deep water cave, the ceiling of which whittled up through time and collapsed,
allegedly during an earthquake. Geologists presume that the water carried the
debris away. As a result, the two left over bridge-shaped boulders remained. The
adjacent area is timbered by century-old conifers, largely spruces. In the past
the bridges had been one entire cave, formed under the erosive activity of the
river waters. Parts of it were collapsing with time, forming majestic marble
bridges. The huge bridge is about fifteen meters wide in its wider parts and
almost hundred meters long. It consists of three arches, as the largest one is
45 meters high and 40 meters wide. The small bridge is at a distance of 200
meters from the large one along the river current. It is blocked, 60 meters
long, with total height of 50 meters, and the height of the arch is 30 meters.
There is also a really small third bridge after it, which is a ponor cave, in
which the waters of Erkyupriya River disappear, to become visible again on the
surface 3 kilometers farther.
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