[Place Info][Properties][Hotels][Postal codes][Phone codes][Population][Coordinates][Distances][Area sizes][Photo Gallery][Video & Webcams][News][Schools]The cape Kaliakra is situated 12 km east of town of Kavarna and 60km north from Varna city. The coast is virtually untouched by tourism. A minor road leads to Cape Kaliakra, with its prominent red cliffs rising 60 metres above the sea. According to local tradition forty girls, the sole survivors of a Turkish attack, tied their long plaits of hair together and jumped to their deaths, rather than be raped by the victors. Today it is a peaceful nature reserve, where hooded cormorants nest, seals and dolphins cavort in the sea, and pink starlings and rock blackbirds frequent the cliffs and caves.