Sights in District Smolyan

"Cave Sharenka" is a small cave-museum, situated about 2.5 km away from the town of Madan. It is named after town largest district - Sharenka. The cave is located in  marble massif in a deep mountain gorge.It was found that the cave was used for mining and was inhabited during the Bronze Age ...

The Museum of the skis and ski-sports in Chepelare is unique for Bulgaria. It is housed in the building of the community center "Rhodopska Iskra" in the town. The museum was opened in 1998, after the great Bulgarian biathlete Ekaterina Dafovska won the gold medal at the 1998 Nagano W...

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,...

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 ...

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...

The historical museum in Smolyan was founded in 1935 by Stoyou Nedelev Shishkov - an enlightener and researcher of Rhodopes. Now the museum has the name of its founder. There are displayed over 150 000 items including a rich numismatic collection, an arms collection, works  dedicated to various ...

This Ethnographic museum collection is managed from the community center of village of Shiroka Luka. The exposition occupies an area of 90 square meters from the third floor of one of the most remarkable houses in the village - Zgurovski Konak. There are exhibited objects from the life and culture...

Architectural and ethnographic complex Agushev Konak in Mogilitza village is declared monument of national importance. The complex was built in period 1820-1842 and consists of 2 residential and some agricultural buildings. The complex was built by Bulgarian master-builder from the Rhodopes region...