Sights in District Smolyan

"Kaleto" cave is located near the village of Koshnitsa and is one of the natural phenomenas in the region. It is located to the south of the road between the villages of Koshnitsa and Smilyan. The cave is accessible by footpath, which started around a kilometre before the village. There...

The "Museum of the Bear" in Trigrad is located near the road between the village and the The Devil`s Throat cave. Through interactive tools in the museum are shown interesting facts about the life of the bear - the habitat, the lifestyle, the nutrition, facts about their population,...

7-th August is the public holiday of Trigrad. During the holiday citizens and the guest of the town are enjoyed by performance of various folk ensembles, orchestras, famous singers of Rhodopes songs, as well as mummer casts from the villages of Shiroka Laka, Otets Paisievo, and Sushitza (the quarter...

Uhlovitsa cave is located in Rhodopes mountain, 3km away of village of Mogilitsa in area of Blue Pools. It is one of the oldest caves in the region and has very beautiful "dendrite" formation, which look like sea corals. The cave is about 460 m long, 330 km out of which are well-explored and...

The Museum of Speleology and Bulgarian Karst in town of Chepelare is the only museum of its kind in Bulgaria and one of the few cave museums in Europe. It houses documents, photos, and samples of rock formations from Rhodopean Karst. The museum was founded in 1980 by Dimitar Raychev (a teacher in ...

Yagodinska cave is the most beautiful cave in the Rhodopes. It is located south-west from village of Yagodina, at the end of Buynovsko Gorge. The cave is 10.5 km long and has 3 floors, from which only the lowest third is electrified and suitable for the tourists. Visitors enter the cave through an a...

Rock phenomenon "The Elephant" is located about 4 km southeast of town of Devin, immediately after the fork on the road Devin-Smolyan, before the former village of Nastan (now - a quarter of Devin). It is situated on the right side of the road (when you are coming from Devin), on the left ...

The Devil`s Throat cave (Peshtera Dyavolskoto garlo) is located in Rhodope Mountains, 1.2km north of village of Trigrad, near the border of Bulgaria with Greece. It has formed as a result of massive tectonic activities.The name of the cave has derived from the devil head shaped entrance. There is a ...

The Laslo Nagi Museum is located in town of Smolyan in quarter of Raykovo. It is housed in "Gyordjevata house" - a building from XIX century, declared for monument of the Rhodopean architecture. The museum is devoted to Laslo Nagi (1925-1978) - a prominent Hungarian poet, publicist, translator of ...

The Museum exhibition in Mochilovtsi was created in 1964. The gallery to it was open in 1967. The exhibitс are displayed in 5 halls in a specially built (1981) building. In the historical collection are exposed more than 3000 exhibits tracing the history of the region and middle-Rhodopean Ch...