Bulgarian tsar of Vidin Ivan Stratsimir extended the old fortress in the 14th century, building fortified garrisons before the existing rock massifs.

The rock massif has numerous caves and overhangs, some with legendary names like Schneiderloch and Wochenbett.

The main gate was at the hill's westernmost part, on a narrow rock massif, and featured a draw-bridge.

It runs from Thale in the Bode Gorge taking eight minutes to reach the rock massif of the Rosstrappe.

The complex rock massif has much to offer both hikers and climbers with its multitude of trails of various levels of difficulty and its climbing rocks.

Immediately in front of the rock massif to the south is the free-standing climbing pinnacle of Wintersteinwächter.

Often these ancient settlements perch in the lee of towering rock massifs, looking like something out of an ancient fable.

More than twenty spaces, varying in shape and size, were carved, at different levels, in solid rock massifs surrounding the main cave structures.

The reserve is important to the southern Arrernte people, and the large rock massif known as Ewerre in the south of the reserve is a registered sacred site.

Hemmed in by 2,000-foot rock massifs, this village seems, by measure of its beauty and mystery, altogether more like a place to stay than to leave.