Sights in Region South-Central

From September 19, 2913 in the village of Dorkovo function interesting Natural-Science museum called "Pliocene epoc park". It presents findings from the Pliocene epoch found in the deposit "Kokalite" ("The Bones") around the village.The deposit is the largest, known to the paleontologists, cluster...

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the town Dimitrovgrad the local government furnished an apartment that recreated the atmosphere of the apartments of that time (and the following decades of socialism). The apartment recreates the time after 1951, when the first blocks ...

The home-museum of the narrow-gauge Septemvri - Dobrinishte is located at Tsepina Station (in the Chepinska River Gorge, 8 km from Varvara - in the direction of Velingrad, 116 km from Sofia and 62 km from Plovdiv). The museum is an initiative of the Citizens' Association "About the narro...

The project for drawings on walls and fences of houses in the village of Staro Zhelezare is of the artist Ventsislav Piryankov. He lives and works in Poland and here is located his family house.The first works are from 2015. The idea is the village to be used as a picturesque canvas and to become a...

In village of Novo selo (Plovdiv region) began the construction of an interesting museum called "Museum of the world - from the Creation to the present day". It is an open air museum located on the rugged mountains above the village, at an area of 10 acres.Currently (XII 2014) most of the sets and...

The Historical Museum of Klisura is housed in a building named "Community Center - memorial museum" built on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the April Uprising. This building is the result of one of the largest charity works after the liberation, as it collected funds for 30 years. The...

The Regional Archaeological Museum of Plovdiv (RAM - Plovdiv) is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Bulgaria. It is officially opened in 1882, and its development goes from simple archaeological and numismatic office to the separate Archaeological Museum (in 1920).The museum has one of the...

St. George School is the first built as planned school building in Asenovgrad. It was constructed just before the Liberation. Nowadays it works as a museum. After its restoration in year of 2000, there are two exhibition halls on the first floor and four large rooms on the second. In one of the r...

"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 Church St.Nedelya in Batak was built for 75 days by the local population in 1813. The church is known for the brutal massacre organized by the Turks over Bulgarian families (including children, women and elders), seeking protection there in days of suppressing of the April uprising in 1876. In...