Two Bears Multi-Cache

Stage 1 - Djumaya Mosque Sundial
N42 08.857 E24 44.895

Your first stage is Djumaya Plaza at the Main Street in Plovdiv. Go to the given coordinates and find the sundial on the corner of Djumaya mosque. See the roman numbers on it. You will find your next coordinates at:

N42 08.AAA E24 44.7BB

AAA - multiply the numbers on the sundial from left to right. Divide the result by 142560.
BB - sum up the numbers on the sundial from left to right.

Stage 2 - The Brown Bear

At the new coordinates you will find yourself in one of the most beautiful gardens in the city - the Tsar Simeon's Garden. Here you will find your first bear - The Brown Bear. Since there are no real bears in Plovdiv it's only a statue. :)

Species's Info. The brown bear (Ursus arctos) weighs 100 to 680 kilograms (220–1,500 lb) and rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family, and as the largest land based predator. While the brown bear's range has shrunk, and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN, with a total population of approximately 200,000. Its principal range countries are Russia, the United States (especially Alaska), Canada, the Carpathian region (especially Romania), and Finland where it is the national animal. The species primarily feeds on vegetable matter, including roots and fungi. Fish are a primary source of meat. It also eats small land mammals and occasionally larger mammals, such as deer.

At stage 2 you will have to find a monument donated to the city of Plovdiv from the Japneese Government. It is located 20-25 m left from the Brown bear. When you find it - count the number of animals on it. This number is Z.

From Stage 2 you must find your way to the statue of the creator of the Tsar Simeon's Garden. It is located at these coordinates:

N42 08.(AAA-16) E24 44.(AAA-BB-185)*Z

Stage 3 - The Gardener

Historical Info: The construction of the most famous contemporary park of Plovdiv is closely connected with the name of the Swiss gardener XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX, working at the end of the 19th century as a court gardener of Sultan Abdul Azis. He arrived in Plovdiv at the invitation of the Chief Goverrnor of Eastern Roumelia - Aleko Bogoridy. At the end of 1891 the area of about 70 decares, where the first Bulgarian Fair was to be built, was levelled away and cleared of garbage and bushes. At first, XXXXXXXXXX put in the seeds of the different kinds of grass, then he planted the trees, and finally made the terraces, the lakes and the fountains. He bestowed special care on the big lake, which replaced the marshland existing on that spot. In the eastern part of the Garden an exquisite fountain with a statue was built - a work of the famous Italian sculptor Arnoldo Zocci. This is the only relic of the International Fair, remaining to this day in the Garden.

Find out who was this Swiss gardener that created the Tsar Simeon's garden and the years of his birth and death.

CCC = year of birth minus 1829
DDD = year of death minus 1780

Your final coordinates will be N42 08.(CCC+AAA) E24 44.(DDD+BB*Z)

Stage 4 (Final) - The Polar Bear

At the final coordinates you will find your second bear - The Polar Bear. Only a statue of course. :)

Speacies's Info. The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a bear native largely within the Arctic circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest carnivore species found on land. It is also the largest bear, together with the omnivore Kodiak bear which is approximately the same size. An adult male weighs around 350–680 kg (770–1,500 lb), while an adult female is about half that size. Although it is closely related to the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrow ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and open water, and for hunting the seals which make up most of its diet. Although most polar bears are born on land, it spends most of its time at sea, hence its name meaning "maritime bear", and can hunt consistently only from sea ice, spending much of the year on the frozen sea. The polar bear is classified as a vulnerable species, with 5 of the 19 polar bear subpopulations in decline. The IUCN now lists global warming as the most significant threat to the polar bear, primarily because the melting of its sea ice habitat reduces its ability to find sufficient food.

NOTE: There aren't many muggles passing through the cache's place, but there might be any, so some stealth is required. Please re-hide the cache properly the way you found it.

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SPECIAL THANKS: I wanna thank IceFireForce and DKGsoft for their notes about this cache, which significantly improved it. :).