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An hour or so's walk southwest of Etara (there's no public transport, although with a car you can drive there along the track that heads east from the complex), Sokolski Monastery perches on a crag above the village of Voditsi. During Ottoman times the monks offered succour to Bulgarian outlaws, putting up the cheta , or band, of local haidut Dyado Nikola in the 1850s, and providing the local rebels with an assembly point during the Rising of 1876. Nowadays it's a discreet, little-visited place, with rose bushes and privet shrubs laid out in a courtyard dominated by an octagonal stone fountain. The small church, dating from the monastery's foundation in 1832, lies at the bottom of a flight of steps to the right. The dome is supported by an unusually large drum of bright blue - also the dominant colour of the frescos inside (primitively painted by the original pastor, Pop Pavel, and his son Nikolai), which include a vivid Dormition of the Virgin above the main entrance.
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