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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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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/

Veliki Preslav

National Reserve of History and Architecture Veliki Preslav
Category: Archaeological site in Veliki Preslav
The National Reserve of History and Architecture with a museum called "Veliki Preslav" is situated on the ruins of the Old Bulgarian capital Veliki Preslav (893-972) and it covers about 500 hectare of its area. The ruins of the city are situated south of the modern Bulgarian town Veliki Pr...

Shoumen

Archaeological site Shumen fortress
Category: Archaeological site in Shoumen
The historical- archaeological reserve "Shoumen fortress" is located on top of the Shoumen plateau. It is partially restored after being destroyed by the Ottomans in the past and nowadays site is one of the best studied archaeological sites in Bulgaria.The fortress is a sophisticated co...

Konyovets

Archeological site Kabiyuk
Category: Archaeological site in Konyovets
Kabiyuk (from Turkish - bulge, mound) is a complex of mounds (one ot them is primary and bigger) and archaeological sites around them. It is located in the lands of Konyovets village, 12 km northeast of town of Shumen and 10 km west of archaeological site Pliska. In the beginning of XX century ther...

Pliska

Pliska Archaeological reserve
Category: Archaeological site in Pliska
The Archaeological Reserve Pliska is located 28 km northeast of town of Shumen and 2 km from the modern town of Pliska. The ancient Pliska was the capital of First Bulgarian state since foundation of Bulgaria in 681 by Khan Asparuh (according to the most popular version) till 893. After years of arc...

Voyvoda

Dineya Fortress
Category: Fortress in Voyvoda
The ruins of the Late-antique fortress of Dineya are located in "Hissarya" locality, about a kilometer east of the village Voivoda and about 23 km northeast of city of Shumen.The castle dates from the first half of IV century. It was occurred as a Roman road station between Abritus (Razgra...

Kaspichan

Ethnographic museum House Kalugertsi
Category: Museum in Kaspichan
The house Kalugertsi is an authentic Bulgarian house built in 1877. It is situated in Kalugeritsa quarter (former village) of town of Kaspichan. The ethnographic exhibition is only of this type in the region and is licensed from the Ministry of Culture. There are displayed objects and tools from the...

URL: http://www.kalugerci.hit.bg/

Marash

House-museum Yurdanovata kashta
Category: Museum in Marash
The house-museum "Jordanovata kashta" is located in the village of Marash (Shumen region). It is a 2-storey construction built in 1883. It was home of the largest, 12-member family of grandfather Yordan, from where house name origin. Nowadays the house is transformed into a unique ethno-mu...

Han Krum

Hankrumovski Rock-monastery
Category: Archaeological site in Han Krum
This rock monastery is situated on the Shoumen plateau near village of Khan Krum, in the western slope of Kalugerovo Boaz. The monastery is reached by a spiral staircase carved in the rock, which in its end goes into a corridor. For the rock was used a natural cave, which was further adapted and tra...

Tsarev brod

Catholic Monastery of Benedictine Sisters Mater dolorosa
Category: Monastery in Tsarev brod
The Monastery of "Benedictine Sisters of Tuttsing" is the only active Catholic monastery in northeastern Bulgaria. It is situated in the village of Tsarev brod and is a part of the Catholic Diocese of Nikopol. The Catholicism is not the main religion in Bulgaria, and the presence of the mo...

Shoumen

Tombul Mosque Sherif Halil Pasha
Category: Mosque in Shoumen
The Sherif Halil Pasha Mosque (more commonly known as the Tombul Mosque) in town of Shumen is the largest mosque in Bulgaria (just before the mosque in town of Razgrad) and second on the Balkans. It was built between 1740 and 1744 in the central for the that time part - nowadays south-western part ...

Shoumen

Regional History Museum
Category: Museum in Shoumen
The Regional Historical Museum in town of Shumen is the successor to the created in 1857 by Sava Dobroplodni a school museum collection. The museum fund has over 150,000 objects from the period of the Chalcolithic to the present day and around 15 000 of them are shown in the museum exhibition hall...

URL: http://museum-shumen.com

Shoumen

Pancho Vladigerov House-Museum
Category: Museum in Shoumen
Pancho Vladigerov (1899 - 1978) is one of the most prominent Bulgarian artists - a composer, a musician and a conductor. The artist was born in Switzerland but spent most of his life in city of Shumen. Today his house, where he made its first steps in music, has turned into a museum. Here visitors c...

Shoumen

House museum "Panayot Volov"
Category: Museum in Shoumen
Panayot Volov (1850-1876) is one of the most prominent figures of the Bulgarian movement for national Liberation. Today his home in city of Shoumen was turned into museum and there is made a restoration of the rooms in their original form. In specially built exhibition hall are displayed documents,...

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