Sights in District Haskovo

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The Assumption Church in village of Uzundjovo is the largest rural church in Bulgaria. It was destroyed and converted into a mosque in 1593 during the Ottoman rule, and was restored again in a Christian church in the beginning of XX century. These changes in the function of the building give the...

The dolmen near the village of Jelezino is a megalithic burial facility dating from the end of II millennium BC. The dolmen is rectangular, single-chamber, without antechamber and dromos. The burial chamber has an east - west orientation.The facility is built of large roughly shaped, vertical gneiss...

Chapel "St. 40 Martyrs" is located on a hill (283 m) in the "Hasar" locality, southeast of village of Stalevo. This is a historical place. From here, in 1230, Tzar Ivan Assen II led the Klokotnitsa battle, when Bulgarians defeated the Byzantine army of Emperor Theodore Co...

Church of St. Archangel Michael in the village of Stalevo (Dimitrovgrad municipality) was built in 1897 by Albanians. It was renovated and refurbished in 1929. In 1997 there was a partial renovation, thanks to local sponsors (Dobrina Ganeva and Dimitar Tenev) and small voluntary donations from the ...

The church "Holy Trinity" in town of Svilengrad was built  in 1834 at the place which probably was the local meeting point of the Bulgarian population in these times. The church was built by voluntary donations of the Bulgarians from the three neighborhoods of the town - Bayandar (on t...

2 km away of village of Planinets (west of town of Ivaylovgrad) are located about 20 well-preserved tombs, built of roughly hewn stone. Furthermore, the shape and boundaries of the graves preserved are also the places where candles and other objects were set, which are made of stone also.The Graves...

The Church "St. Athanasius" in village of Belopolyane was built in 1838 and is a remarkable representative of the Bulgarian Renaissance religious architecture from the first half of XIX century.It is a typical 3-nave pseudo basilica with pentagonal bell tower and rich relief sculptures on...

The Church "St. Panteleimon" in village of Plevun is typical representative of the religious architecture in the middle of XIX century (Vazrajdaneto - the Bulgarian Renaissance). It was built in 1843 and is a 3-nave pseudo-basilica with a bell tower.Among the most attractive elements in ...