This is a Medieval stone relief situated 1.5 km east of the Madara village. It is located at 23 meters of height on a vertical rock of the Madara plateau, and is the only monument in Europe of its kind, also declared by UNESCO a monument with world significance.

The relief represents a life- size horse rider, turned right. Using a spike, the rider stabs the lion, lying in his legs. A dog runs after the knight. The scene probably represents important historical events and gives an idea of the Medieval Bulgarian art. The composition is supposed to be Khan Tervel, because three groups of inscriptions - Chronics have been added. The first inscription dates back to Khan Tervel (8th century) and the two further down are Khan Kormish in the left and Khan Omurtag in the right.
The weather and erosions damaged the inscriptions, but from the leftover of the text, we can have an insight of the composition. The inscriptions of Madara although was written in Greek, it symbolizes the power of the young Bulgarian nation established in the Balkan.

The whole of the archeological park “Madara” is filled with many intriguing traces of human presence from an early epoch (4000 years b.c.). Tall and inpenetrable rocks surround on both sides an average in size but easy to protect plateu. Many caves and rock formations combined with abundand vegetation – attract man kind since the ancient times.


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