Sights in Bulgaria

Borovitsa Monastery is located about 20 km from the village of Borovitsa and 12 km from the town of Belogradchik. It can be reached by the center of the village of Borovitsa, where there are signposts indicating the route.In the courtyard of the monastery is situated a church named Holy Trinity....

The Batuliyski Monastery "Saint Nicholas" is located on the eponymous hill about a kilometer from the center of Batulia village.The current church of monastery was consecrated in 1911 by the Sofia Metropolitan Partenii. It was built on the site of an ancient church, destroyed during the Ottoman...

Arapovo monastery "St. Nedelya" is located near the village of Zlatovrah whose former name was Arapovo, hence the name of the monastery. It was founded in 1856 and is the only monastery built during the Ottoman rule.The construction of the monastery was initiated by the monk Sofroniyi and...

Nunnery "Orlica" to the Rila Monastery is located in northwest part of Rila mountain, on the right bank of the Rila River, about 2.5 km east of the town of Rila towards village of Pastra and Rila Monastery (18 km).The convent is a complex with trapezoidal shape. It consists of a church, a former inn...

Tsurnogorski monastery "St. Kozma and Damian" (aka "Giginski monastery" or "Chernogorski Monastery") is situated at the foot of Mount. Kitka (1118 m) in mountain in Cherna gora. The monastery is located about 4-5 km southeast of Gigintsi village, 16 km southwest of the town of Breznik and 52 km east...

The monastery "St. Nicholas" (also known as Kalugerovo Monastery) is located in the outskirts of the Sredna gora mountain, on the banks of the River Topolnitsa, about 2 km from the village of Kalugerovo.It is assumed that the monastery existed even during the Crusades (XI-XIII century). In 1419 it...

The monastery "St. Marina" (also called Karanvarbovski Monastery) is located 3 km southwestern of the village of Karan Varbovka. This is the most famous monastery with a ayzmo (sacred spring) in Eastern Bulgaria, which is dedicated to St. Marina.It is assumed that the monastery was founded during...

Pravets monastery "St. Teodor Tiron" is located in the foothills of Etropole Mountain, about 2-3 km away of Pravets, on the road to Etropole. This is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery, part of the vicarage of Botevgrad, Lovchanski Diocese of Bulgarian Orthodox Church.In the ancient times there was a...

The Osmar rock monasteries are remarkable religious, cultural and educational monuments from the Second Bulgarian Kingdom. They are located on the steep southern and south-eastern slopes in the area of "Osmar Boaz" of the Shumen plateau, north of the village of Osmar and south-western of the town of...

Gotse Delchev monastery "Zhivorpriemnii iztochnik" (aka "Virgin Mary") is located about 2 km southwest of the town of Gotse Delchev. It's constantly-acting, nunnery. The monastery was founded in the XIX century. According marble slab, which is built into the west wall of the monastery church, the ...