This mountain village where stone houses rest among 325 centenarians who never knew modern stress
Morning silence wraps around stone houses scattered across Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains, where time moves differently than anywhere else in Europe. In villages like Kotel, residents wake before dawn not from alarm clocks, but from roosters and church bells that have marked mountain rhythms for centuries. Here, living past 100 isn’t extraordinary. It’s simply what happens … Lire plus









