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In our column "Feel Bulgaria with\u2026" today we meet you with Victor Georgiev \/ @vviiktor<\/a> \/ - a young and extremely positive traveler who creates great visual and verbal content and has long been on our list of favorite authors on Instagram. Here is what Victor told us about himself\u2026<\/p>\n

\nHello! My name is Victor Georgiev. I am a coach at Tabata & Hiit, but another of my great passions is photography and travel. I travel every day off, I like to visit new and unknown places. I do it because the time spent in nature, capturing different views and moments definitely charges and inspires me. With my Instagram account I want to make more people visit our beautiful places in Bulgaria and beyond. I have been to many places abroad, but our nature here is unique and should definitely not be underestimated. Recently I also create short videos from every location I visit. I do it in order for people to get an accurate and clear idea of what it looks like and to learn a little more information about it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now, thanks to Victor, we will move to several great places in different parts of Bulgaria - see them and get inspired to travel around our beautiful homeland!<\/p>\n

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Elena Basilica<\/h3>\n

The temple is located about 3.5 km. northeast of the town of Pirdop. The area and the river that flows through it are called "Elensko" and "Elena river", and the ruins of the basilica "Elena Monastery" or Monastery "St. Elijah".<\/p>\n

The place is ancient Thracian<\/a> sanctuary of the tribe Velikokoylaleti. Prof. Alexander Fol locates in this region the Thracian legend about the descent of a deer from the Balkan Mountains and its sacrifice by the local population on a certain day of the year. This is one of the assumptions about the origin of the toponym. The legend is not without grounds, as during the excavations of the terrain and the temple a large amount of scattered deer bones and horns were found. Another thesis about the origin of the toponym is from the Bulgarianization of the ethnonym "Hellenes" (Greeks) in later times, according to the belonging of the basilica in the early Byzantine era.<\/p>\n

According to historical and archaeological data, the most ancient monument of national importance in the Municipality of Pirdop are the ruins of the early Christian fortified church in the area "Elensko", dating from the end of V - first half of VI century. culture.<\/p>\n