Site Represents a site. Contact gk64@st-andrews.ac.uk Status public Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc cave Place The town or city 3938, Bulgaria Condition 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Magura Cave (The Rabisha Cave) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived isfiveoneonezero Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource gk64 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 293 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,43.64283332920869,22.683196971192956; Description An account of the resource The Magura Cave is located in northeastern Bulgaria, 17 km from Belogradchik, in the limestone Rabisha burial mound (altitude 461 meters). It is one of the largest and most beautiful caves in Bulgaria. It consists of a main gallery and three side branches. The overall length of the cave is approximately 2500 meters. The temperature in the cave is a constant 12 degrees Centigrade, year-round. It is most visited during the summer months. According to geological studies, The Magura Cave began to take shape about 15 million years ago. In one of the caverns, prehistoric paintings have been discovered, carved into the walls and decorated with bat guano (droppings). The paintings depict the silhouettes of women, men dancing and hunting, people wearing masks, animals, stars, tools, and plants. The paintings date from different eras – the early Paleolithic, the Neolithic, the later Neolithic, and the beginning of the Bronze Age. A solar calendar from the late Neolithic found there is the earliest solar calendar discovered in Europe. It is painted on the walls of the sanctuary hall and depicts 5 festivals and 366 days. The Magura Cave was recognized as a natural landmark by Decree 666 on 3 May 1960. The cave offers one of the richest collections of geological formations, of all shapes and sizes – stalactites, stalagmites, columns, Geodesic formations, cave pearls, and flows of “cave milk”. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 17/05/2021 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Subject The topic of the resource Immovable Culture Heritage,Tourism Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://bulgariatravel.org/en/the-magura-cave-the-rabisha-cave/ Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. The Magura Cave (The Rabisha Cave) Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Cultural>Site