Cherepish

It is undoubtedly a popular enough tourist site, but in this story I would like to tell not about it, but about other remarkable things of Cherepish.

Any trip to Cherepish can offer nature, architecture and desolation. And just how impressive the nature is there! Every time I get off at Cherepish station, I feel like the first time I went there. I will never forget how impressed I was by the giant rocks overhanging the roaring Iskar and the collapsed station, all eaten up by caves and rock niches. The sky was dark, which added drama to the already stark landscape. Most impressive of all, however, were the numerous large crosses protruding from the most impenetrable chukars. I still remember standing at the foot of the dizzying cliffs and couldn't take my eyes off the crosses. Time and time again I looked around the massif and couldn't imagine how it was even possible for anyone to reach these peaks, let alone carry with them a cross of similar size and manage to fix it there. And why were there so many? The questions of who and why had placed these crosses on the peaks soon found their answer, and not anywhere, but by the stove in the Cherepish inn. It is a little known fact that in September 1950 the communists exiled the Sofia Theological Seminary "St. Ioan Rilski" at Cherepish station. And the crosses on the rocks are directly related to this period of the seminary's history: each graduating class placed one somewhere on the steep rocks to mark their graduation