Kaliakra is a long and narrow headland of the northern Bulgaria Black Sea Coast, located 12 km east of Kavarna. The coast is steep with vertical cliffs reaching 70 m down to the sea. Kaliakra is a nature reserve. 
The legend about Saint Nicholas, patron of sailors. Saint fled from the Turks and God prolong hard ground under his feet to be able to escape, and thus was created and nose. Eventually he was captured there and now there is a chapel, restored in 1993, symbolizing his grave. At this place during the Ottoman rule there were dervish monastery, which is claimed to keep the relics of Saint Sara Sultuk Turkish. Small nose north of cape named St. Nicholas.
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