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Fortified
habitation in Bansko, Bulgaria.
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Such places
are considered by their inhabitants sacred, "sveti". They are sacred
because they bear names of saints or enigmatic toponyms indicated by venerable
vestiges and consecrated by the rites there celebrated. Many of these sites
are also memorable places, since they have been the theater of events whose
memory is kept alive by familial sagas, or the theater of feats whose legend
has shaped the identity of the local community. Lastly, they are literally
"historic" places to chroniclers, historiographers and archeologists, since
their constructions, vestiges and legends contribute to validate or not
the main hypotheses shared by analysts of the past of these peoples, societies
and cultures. 
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J.C. : Les Noces
de Marko, le rite et le mythe en pays bulgare, Paris, PUF, 1998, pp.86-87
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