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Melnik

Melnik (pop. 800) is the smallest Bulgarian town, picturesquely lying among frozen sandstone pyramids immobile for millennia . Thracians, Romans and Byzantines have writen its history. During the 17th - 18th c. it become a flourishing tobacco and wine-producing center, whose fame spread to many European countries. The beautiful fortress-like houses with broad wine cellars cut in the limestone rocks date from this period. A single street leads to the finest example of the formes splendour of this small souther town..The Kordopoulos House - with Venetian stained glass windows, spacious rooms and salons, ornamental murals, weaves and fretwork, a wrought iron gate and large wine-cellar from which caravans with the famous Melnik wine once left for Salonika, Athens, Vienna, Rome, and even Marseille and Spain. Melnik is the starting point towards Rozhenski Monastery.