The Thracian tribes lived peacefully in their villages, enjoying the abundant riches that were given to them by nature and singing joyful songs in the glory of time, but the Romans came and enslaved them. Their stolen wealth was not enough for them, but they began to take advantage of what they had better, the Thracians – their beautiful daughters. Legend says that a Roman soldier liked the most beautiful virgin in the village. Her name was Sitla. The Roman very much wanted to win the love of Sitla, but she had a boyfriend whom he loved indescribably. His only hope was to seize, kidnap and enslave her boyfriend and send him to gladiator fights and kill him there. The girl began to suffer after her lover. Every evening, she would come to the lake and, vowing revenge, throw stones trying to stop him. The years passed, the lake was filled with stones, but the spring did not dry out. The water was necessary for the Romans, and the hatred from Sitla’s heart against them made her to cast and cover the spring of the lake with her body. The clear water as the tear was coming out of the clogged spring, was less and less, and people had to move to another place.
New tribes came to these places and defeated the Romans.
Legend says that Sitla knew she had avenged her lost love and let the water flow into the lake. The water in the lake began to flow again, carrying the tears of love in Sitla’s eyes. People have built a fountain in several exits called “Sitana Fountain”.