Sights in Municipality Plovdiv-city

The Church St. Constantine and Helena is located in the center of the ancient part of Plovdiv, on the ruins of the fortress wall (Akropola) and is the oldest church in the town. It was built over ruins of an existing Christian sanctuary dating back to the beginning of IV century. The church was r...

Orthodox church of St. Kyriaki (in Bulgarian "Sveta Nedelya") in Plovdiv was built in its current appearance in 1831 - 1832 by Petko Petkov - a master builder from town of Bratsigovo. The church building is a three-nave pseudo-basilica, 31 m long, 24 m wide and 16 m high. The dome of the...

The Roman Forum in Plovdiv was designed during reign of the Emperor Vespasianus in the I century and was completed in the II century. It is in immediate proximity to the Odeon. The Forum was built over an area of 11 hectares and was surrounded by commercial and public buildings. The main streets of...

The "Festival of the young wine" is held annually in Old Plovdiv during month of November. For the first time it was organized in 2008 by the association Alliance Française - Plovdiv and was called "Chansons and young wine", but from the next year its organizer is the Council of Tourism in the ...

The Ethnographic Museum is located in Old Town of Plovdiv. It was opened in 1917 and in its current building (The Kuyumdjiev house - a declared cultural monument of national importance) it is housed from 14 October 1943 when it was named the Municipal house-museum. In 1949 it was renamed to Popular...

The children`s railway in city of Plovdiv was constructed in 1979, but in the years after 1989, gradually was declined and closed. It is reconstructed and open again in 2007. The train has 3 carriages and running through a picturesque hilly terrain, over 1090 meters long railway. There are many a...

In the center of modern city of Plovdiv, under the building of one of the shopping centers, are located the ruins of an ancient Roman stadium dating from the II century. It was built on the slopes of Sahat Tepe and Taksim Tepe hills as a replica of the stadium in Delphi, Greece. The facility was in...

The Roman Odeon is an Ancient Theatre built during the II - V centuries. It was with capacity of 350 seats for the spectators and was smaller comparing with the other ancient theatre of Philippopolis. In the beginning the building was erected for a bulevterion (headquarter of the city assembly) an...