They contain a lot of fossils.All columns are hollow inside and heavily corroded.The stones of ‘Pobiti Kamani’ reach a thickness of 9 metres and a height of 11 metres. The whole complex consists of about 300 stone columns of different sizes. According to some scientists` opinions, the perfectly formed columns werebuilt in the Eocene, 50 million years ago, when Southeastern Europe was a bottom of a sea. Not too far from this place the archeologists

unearthed settlements fromthe Paleolithic. The ‘Pobiti Kamani’ are an unique for the whole world geological phenomenon.The ‘Pobiti Kamani’ phenomenon is the first officially announced and protected by the government natural site in Bulgaria. That happened in 1937. The natural site ‘Pobiti Kamani’ is an easily reached tourist attraction.