Sights to Visit: Bulgaria

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The Kordopulova house
Category: Museum in Melnik
The Kordopulova (aka Cincarovata) House in the town of Melnik is the biggest preserved house on the Balkan peninsula from the Renaissance period. It was built in 1754 year for the needs of the family of the rich Greek merchant Kordopoulos.The Kordopulov House has amazing architecture and splendid in...

URL: http://www.kordopulova-house.com

Sofia

Alexander Nevski Cathedral
Category: Cathedral in Sofia
Alexander Nevski Cathedral in city of Sofia was built in 1912 in honour of the Russian and Ukrainian casualties of the 1877-78 War of Liberation from Ottoman Rule. It is one of the finest pieces of architecture in the Balkans. The cathedral has a gold-dome and icons, frescoes, murals and huge chand...

Glojene

Glozhene Monastery St. Georgi Pobedonosets
Category: Monastery in Glojene
The Glozhene Monastery St. Georgi Pobedonosets is situated near the village of Glozhene, 12 km north-west from the town of Teteven. Seen from below it is like a castle on the rocks, near the Lisets summit in Stara planina. According to the legend the monastery was built in the 13th century by the Uk...

Starozagorski bani

The Holy Mother Step
Category: Rock-formation in Starozagorski bani
The Holy Mother Step is a big concave rock having the form a human step. It is located near the Stara Zagora mineral baths, in district with same name. The region has high bio-energy power and the local people believe that it helps curing a lot of illnesses. A chapel "Nativity of Holy Virgin M...

Balchik

Balchik Botanical Garden
Category: Parks & Gardens in Balchik
The Botanical Garden is the main attraction in town of Balchik. Its 10 hectares surround the small summer palace of the Romanian Queen Marie. The gardens are set on a steep hillside, and descend in 6 terraces to the sea - supposedly one for each of the Queen`s children. There are over 3000 varietie...

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Belogradchik

The Belogradchik Rocks
Category: Rock-formation in Belogradchik
The Belogradchik Rocks are marvelous rock-formations located south of city of Belogradchik. They were formed of varicoloured Triassic sandstones and conglomerates. These have fantastic outlines - up to 200 meters high silhouettes of people, towers, ships, mushrooms, obelisks, palaces, and animals. ...

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Sofia

Boyana church
Category: Church in Sofia
The Boyana Church (Boyanska tsarkva) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated on the outskirts of Sofia in the quarter of Boyana. It is built in the late X-th or early XI-th century. The church is famous with its frescoes from 1259. They form a second layer over the paintings from earlier ce...

URL: http://www.boyanachurch.org/

Madara

Madara Horseman
Category: Archaeological site in Madara
The Madara Horseman (or The Madara Rider) is one of the symbols of Bulgaria. The site is located near village of Madara (several kilometers from town of Shumen in North-Eastern Bulgaria). It is an early medieval carved rock relief depicting the life-size forms of a horseman and an eagle, trailed by...

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Rilski manastir

Rila monastery
Category: Monastery in Rilski manastir
The Rila monastery (real name is Monastery of Saint Ivan of Rila) is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is located in Rila mountain, several kilomters east of town of Rila and 117km south of Sofia.The monastery was built in X-th century and nowadays the complex sp...

Pleven

Panorama Pleven Epopee - 1877
Category: Memorial in Pleven
Nowadays there are 33 panoramas all over the world. One of them with the biggest dimensions is constructed in Pleven and was officially unveiled on 10 December 1977.The memorial is devoted to to five-months battles of Russian army during the Russian-Turkish war 1877-78 as a result of which Bulgar...

Sveshtari

Sveshtari Thracian Vault
Category: Archaeological site in Sveshtari
The Sveshtari Thracian Vault (aka Sveshtari Tomb) is a unique monument of the Thracian Hellenistic art, dating back to the first half of the III-th century B.C. It was discovered 2.5km south-west of village of Sveshtari (34 km away from town of Razgrad) at the archaeological excavations of a Thracia...

Kazanluk

Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
Category: Archaeological site in Kazanluk
The Kazanlak Thracian Crypt (aka Kazanlak tomb) is a monument of exceptionally great worth, discovered in 1944 beneath a mound in the vicinity of the town of Kazanlak (north-east direction). It is representative of the Thracian architectural and pictorial art from the end of the 4 th and the beginn...

Shoumen

Monument Founders of the Bulgarian State
Category: Memorial in Shoumen
Monument "Founders of the Bulgarian State" (aka "1300 years Bulgaria") was built in 1981 to celebrate the 1300th anniversary of the Bulgarian State. It is situated on a plateau above the town of Shumen and its silouette can be seen from a distance between 20 - 30 kilometres. Mem...

URL: http://www.ab-bg.com/bg1300/

Krushuna

Maarata waterfall
Category: Waterfall in Krushuna
The waterfall in eco-park Maarata near village of Krushuna is one one of the most beautiful in Bulgaria. It has specific vegetation, lush under the falling water. Close to the Waterfall cave above the waterfalls cascade, there is a rock wreath from 8 up to 40 m in height. There is an eco-trail that ...

Gorna krepost

Perperikon archaeological complex
Category: Archaeological site in Gorna krepost
Perperikon (aka Hyperperakion or Perperakion) is located in the Eastern Rhodope range, south of village of Gorna krepost and some 15 kilometers north-east of town of Kurdzhali. There is an archaeological complex which contains a large megalithic/Thracian sanctuary, a sacred city and medieval for...

URL: http://www.perperikon.bg/

Asenovgrad

Asenova krepost fortress
Category: Fortress in Asenovgrad
"Asenova krepost" (aka "Stanimahos" or "Petrich") is a medieval fortress located 2-3 km south of the town of Asenovgrad. It lies on on a high rocky ridge in Rhodopes mountain, on the left bank of the Asenitsa River. According to archaeologists a stronghold was existed ...

Vidin

Baba Vida Fortress
Category: Fortress in Vidin
Baba Vida fortress is one of the major attractions of the town of Vidin. It is one of the few entirely preserved medieval castle in Bulgaria. It is is situated on a big curve of the river Danube in the northeast part of the town. Its construction was started in X century at the place of an Ancient ...

Plovdiv

Roman Antique theater
Category: Archaeological site in Plovdiv
This Antique theater is situated in the center of Plovdiv, between the south-western slope of the Dzhambaz Tepe and the Taxim tepe hill within the old town. The construction was built in the 2nd century AD under the orders of the Roman Emperor Trajan. The theater was damaged in the 5th century AD by...

Razgrad

Abritus Museum
Category: Museum in Razgrad
Abritus Museum is part of Historical Museum of Razgrad. It is situated east of the town center at area of 400m2. The objects presented in the exhibition hall are gathered thematically in several groups thus aiming to trace back the development of human society in the area through the paleolith, neol...

URL: http://abritvs.atspace.com/

Ivanovo

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Category: Archaeological site in Ivanovo
The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo are located on a high rocky banks 32m above Rusenski Lom river, near village of Ivanovo and 18 km south of town of Ruse. They are a network of monolithic churches, chapels, cells and monasteries hewn with different heights, out of solid rock and completely differen...

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