Sights in Municipality 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. Memorial recreates the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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-museum. The...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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, ...