Kaylaka is a large park and protected area south of Pleven

Pleven

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, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, situated in a Karst

KARST

Kilometer-square Area Radio Synthesis Telescope is a Chinese telescope project to which FAST is a forerunner. KARST is a set of large spherical reflectors on karst landforms, which are bowlshaped limestone sinkholes named after the Kras region in Slovenia and Northern Italy. It will consist of...

 valley. The park is spread over 10 km² and is surrounded by sheer cliffs that suggest favourable conditions for rock climbing

Rock climbing

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. The ruins of the Roman

Ancient Rome

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 fortress of Storgosia

Storgosia

Storgosia was a road station of Ancient Rome located in the vicinity of modern Pleven, nort central Bulgaria, in the modern Kaylaka Park. It accommodated detachments of Legio I Italicas Novae garrison. The station grew to become a fortress in Late Antiquity due to Gothic and other Barbarian raids...

 are located in Kaylaka, as well as ponds and reservoirs with boats and pedalo

Pedalo

A paddle boat or "pedalo" is a form of waterborne transport, primarily for recreational use, powered through the use of pedals....

s, a swimming pool, hotels, cafés, restaurants, discothèques and playgrounds.

Arguably the most important figure with connection to the park is General Lieutenant Ivan Vinarov, the first chairman of an initiative committee which set up the Kaylaka People's Park at the place of the Sokol Hunting Park in 1946. Under Vinarov the protected park territory was enlarged almost four times and several reservoirs were constructed.