Sights in District Sliven

The Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the village of Blatets is one of the few landmarks in the area....

Paintball Combat Bulgaria is located in the village of Radevo, municipality of Nova Zagora. Pre-booking can be made on the Facebook page of the attractionThe price is for unlimited play time and includes a paintball gun, 100 pcs of color balls, gas, uniform and mask. Shooting Balls can be purchased...

Georgi Janakiev Stoyanov is a Bulgarian artist, one of the main representatives of the Bulgarian graphics, illustration and painting. Born on May 6, 1941 in village of Veselie, Bourgas. His childhood and youth were bygoned in the Burgas region. In 1964 He was admitted to the National Academy of...

Sliven Regional Historical Museum traces history of the Sliven region from the antique to nowadays. The main museum sections are: - Archaeology - keeps objects from the period of the VI millennium BC till the end of the Second Bulgarian kingdom- History from XV - XIX centuries - historical...

Hadji Dimitar is legendary Bulgarian voivoda (leader) - fighter for the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottomans. It was born May 1840 in the Sliven neighborhood "Kloutsohor". In 1935 his native-home was turned into museum. The house is a small, one-storeyed , unsymmetrical building with a...

Jeravna is a small village in eastern part of Stara Planina mountain. The village was founded in XII-XIV century and in the XVIII century it was crafts and cultural center. Nowadays Zheravna is declared an architectural reserve because the many (over 200) perfectly preserved houses, streets and...

The fortress Twidda is located on the "Hisarlaka" hill to the north-east of Sliven. It was built probably in the middle of IV century and was destroyed in XIII century.The fortress was a part of the fortification system along the Balkan mountain and played important role in the defence of...

The population of village of Yablanovo consists of Muslims who professing heterodox Islam (Kızilbashis / Aliani). The village is notable for the unusually great number of türbes existing on its territory.The shrines in the village belong to two types:- a grave in a rectangular tomb (the türbes of Hü...

Kipilovo Kale Fortress is located on Mount Hissarluka - south of village of Kipilovo. Today around the fortress was overgrown a beech forest, which makes its detection more difficult for the visitors. It is believed that the fortress was built in the late VI century by the Byzantines and existed u...

Karanovska Settlement  mound is located in the northwestern edge of the village Karanovo (Sliven district). It was formed from the ruins of successively built on each other prehistoric settlements and is one of the biggest mounds in Bulgaria. The Karanovskata mound was inhabited in the Neolithic, C...