Babacai Rock

A solitary rock rising over the Danube, approx. 200 metres far from the village of Coronini at the Romanian bank. According to a legend, the Turkish governor of Moldova left one of his seven wives, Zuleika, on the rock as she tried to flee from him with a Hungarian aristocrat. Zuleika should have repented on this inaccessible rock but was saved by her lover, who, moreover, later had the possibility of revenge to the cruel husband. When fatally injured in combat, the husband was told by the triumphant lover that Zuleika is still alive and has become Christian. Inspiration for this legend lies probably in the Czech interpretation of the Turkish name for the rock (similarity of the words “kaj” and “kat se” (in Czech - to repent))