The Osenovlash Monastery "Holy Mother of God", better known as the Seven Thrones, is located at the foot of Izdremets Peak in the beautiful valley of the Gabrovnitsa River, a right tributary of the Iskar River. The road to the monastery passes through the Iskar Gorge. The monastery church "Pokrov Bogorodichen" is a cultural monument of national importance.
The monastery probably dates back to the 10th century. According to legend, its establishment is associated with the Bulgarian boyar Petar Delyan, leader of the Bulgarian uprising against Byzantium in 1040-1041, and it is even claimed that he was buried together with his brothers in the monastery. This, of course, is very unlikely, because the uprising began in the current lands of Serbia and spread mainly to the southeast. It reached the Sofia region, but not the lands of the Gorge. And after the uprising ended, the blinded Petar Delyan was taken to Constantinople.
