Sights in Bulgaria

The Nunnery "Reverend Petka Bulgarska" is situated near the homonymous village of Koprivets (municipality of Byala, Ruse district). It is one of the newest Bulgarian monasteries, but it is suggests that during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom at the same place there was existed other...

Preobrajenski monastery is located around 6-7 kilometers north of Veliko Turnovo, under the inaccessible sheer rocks of the west bank of the Yantra River. It was built in the middle of VIX century during the Second Bulgarian State. During the years of Ottoman Rule the monastery had been burnt down...

The Monastery "St. Zhivorpriemnii iztochnik" (aka "Life-giving Source" or Golyamo-bukovsko monastery) is located 4 km eastern from the village of Golyamo Bukovo.  It was built in 1887 and nowadays is the only monastery survived in region of Strandja Mountain. According to the a...

The monastery "St. Forty Martyrs" (aka Merdanski Monastery) is located in Turnovo heights of the Balkan Mountain, in southern part of Merdanya village, 10 km west of the town of Zlataritsa and 11 km southeast of the town of Lyaskovets. The monastery dates from the Second Bulgarian K...

The "Assumption of Virgin Mary" ("Sveta Bogoroditsa") is the smaller of the two monasteries in village of Arbanasi (other is "Monastery St.Nikola"). It is located in the northwestern part of the village at the road Veliko Tarnovo - Gorna Oryahovitsa.The monastery was...

The Monastery of St. Luke (a nunnery) is located at the northern foot of Osogovo mountain in the area "Pustia manastir" ("The deserted monastery"), about 2 km southwest of the village of Granitsa and 8 km south of the town of Kyustendil. It was founded in X century. Like most of...

The Dragalevski monastery "The Holy Virgin of Vitosha" ("Vitoshka Sveta Bogoroditsa") is situated at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, 3 km south of quarter of Dragalevtszi (Sofia). It is one of the most beautiful and at the same time easiest to access monasteries in Bulgaria....

1 km south of the village of Kabyle is located Monastery (nunnery) "Assumption of Virgin Mary" (in Bulgarian: "Uspenie na Sveta Bogoroditsa") and a holy spring (ayazmo). The current monastery was built in 1928 around a spring, whose waters are considered healthy and were used...

The Gorna Banya monastery Sts. Cyril and Methodius (also called "Lyulinski Monastery") is located some 3 km away from the Sofia district Gorna Banya, in the Lyulin Mountain. The monastery was founded in XIII-th century and in the past was "St. Kral" (King), because according th...

Arbanasi Monastery "St. Nicola" is the larger of the two monasteries in village of Arbanassi. It is situated in the southwest part of the village, about half a kilometer from other monastery - Nunnery "The Holy Virgin".Monastery of St. Nicholas was founded during the second...