Madara Rider World Heritage Site

Official name

Madara Rider | UNESCO

Country

Bulgaria | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Village of Madara, Province of Shumen
43.2773° Lat, 27.1188° Lon | Map

Code

43

Time Zone

Europe/Sofia (EET, +0200)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1979. The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria’s conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that occurred between AD 705 and 801.