Cocev Kamen (Tsote’s Stone), the village of Sopsko Rudare, in the Municipality of Kratovo

Cocev Kamen (Tsote’s Stone) is a unique site, which joins the grounds for sacrificial rituals, a temple, painted rock art and a prehistoric observatory.

A few years ago the Rock Art Research team of the World Academy of Rock Art has discovered the most imposing and significant cultural monument from the prehistory, in the village of Sopsko Rudare, in the Municipality of Kratovo.

       

There were two rows of rock seats engraved under the cave, which joined by the platform formed a theater. This is the first theatre of that kind discovered in the World. Gea Mater, a bone, has been discovered near the cave which tells us that the cave was used by the people in the Paleolithic. There was a smaller natural cave, above this cave until the Bronze Age, when the spiritual leaders of the population who inhabited the surroundings of “Tsotsev Kamen”, organized cave’ s warming for spirituals needs. 

      

The rock is a fascinating location, resembles a site as if from fantasy films, full of secret meanings that incite the imagination.