Sights in Bulgaria

Asara is a medieval fortress near the mine Zvezdel, south of the village with the same name - Zvezdel. The Fortress was built in XI-XII century and was used to guard the mine, where was extracted gold and silver. The Fortification is situated on a height that dominates over the region - Mt Asara....

"Buyuk Kale" Fortress (aka "Big Krepcha Kale" and "Dere kale") is located in the locality of Ryakata, 5km southwest of the village of Krepcha. It is situated on a large rocky hill above the left bank of the little river of Kalakoch dere. The fortress covers an area of...

Yatrus fortress is located near the village of Krivina (municipality Tsenovo). It was built in IV century and was an important Roman military unit in the area of Lower Danube. There were discovered remains of a Roman and early-Byzantine town which was destroyed by the Avars in the beginning of the...

The fortress Ranchovo Gradishte is located in Golo Bardo mountain, not far away from the Slavey hut - around 4 km south of town of Pernik. It is one of the many subsidiary fortresses, together with Goliamo Gradishte and Malko Gradishte, which were build around the fortress of Perink. Its mountain ...

Kopsis fortress (aka Anevsko Kale or Anevo kale) is a Middle Ages fortress located on the southern slopes of Stara Planina, around 4 kilometres north from the Village of Anevo (near Sopot). The fortress was built in that state in the Middle Ages (around XII century during the Second Bulgarian...

The Fortress Alinskoto Kale is located about 7 kilometers west of the village Alino (Samokov municipality). Probably the fortress was built in XII-XIII century and existed until the middle of XVII-th century. The castle was wwith area of 3 decares and there are still preserved remains from the w...

The Byalgrad fortress is located 2 km south-east of village of Gugutka. The fortress is dated to the end of XII century and is one of the well preserved in Bulgaria. The citadel`s walls reach up to 8 meters in height and 2 m in wide in their base. The name of the fortress comes from the white st...

About 4 km north of the village of Pchelarovo (in Gradishteto locality at the right side of the road to Haskovo, after the fork to the village of Petelovo) were found remains of a fortress. The facility dates from the Middle Ages, but archaeological excavations of the site have revealed that it was ...

Fortress Lyubnishko Kale (aka Lyubnishko gradishte) is located in the locality "Suhoto dere", about 9 km west of the village Tserovo (Pazardjik district), near the hut Eledzhik. The fortification was built on an elevation (today called "Kaleto"), which is surrounded from west, n...

The ruins of this fortress are located in locality of Baluk dere gully, near the border with Greece, at hill between villages of Slaveevo and Huhla. The fortress was constructed in the IV-th century and was probably prompted by moving the seat of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople. During ...