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Regional History Museum Sliven
Category: Museum in Sliven
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 developme...

URL: http://museum.sliven.net/

Sliven

House-Museum Hadji Dimitar
Category: Museum in Sliven
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...

Sliven

Fortress Twidda
Category: Fortress in Sliven
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 ...

Jeravna

Architectural reserve Zheravna
Category: Old architecture in Jeravna
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 buil...

Yablanovo

Complex of Türbes
Category: Sanctuary in Yablanovo
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...

Kipilovo

Fortress Kipilovo kale
Category: Fortress in Kipilovo
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...

Karanovo

Karanovka Settlement Mound
Category: Archaeological site in Karanovo
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, ...

Sliven

Golf-Course Sliven
Category: Golf-course in Sliven
The golf course in Sliven is the biggest (at this moment) golf course in Bulgaria (total length 6010 meters, par 71). It was opened on May 24, 2004. The Golf-base includes 18 excellent fairways and greens, driving range and greens, club house with shop, restaurant and hotel. The lawns are treated w...

Sliven

The Old Elm-tree (Ulmus carpinifolia)
Category: Parks & Gardens in Sliven
The Old Elm in Sliven is a millennial tree - a symbol of the city. it is of Ulmus carpinifolia kind - a broad-leaved tree with a very well developed route system. It is one of the few remaining of the Great Bulgarian Forest (Silva Bulgarica Magna), which has covered the whole area between the Rhodop...

Sudievo

Funeral mound "Zlata mogila"
Category: Archaeological site in Sudievo
The Funeral mound of "Zlata mogila" is located near village of Sudievo, 8km east of Nova Zagora and 1 km from the road Sofia - Burgas. It dates from the Roman times (I - II century) and is one of the largest burial mounds in the region. The archaeological excavations were found two chario...

Sliven

Art gallery "Dimitar Dobrovich"
Category: Gallery in Sliven
Art gallery "Dimitar Dobrovich" in town of Sliven is inheritor of an Art exhibition from 1905, open in the library of the community center Zora. This first exhibition was made by the artist Jordan Kyuvliev and contains 14 works of the painter from Sliven - Dimitar Dobrovich. Later in the...

URL: http://art-gallery.sliven.net/

Kotel

Statue Khan Krum and his warriors
Category: Statue in Kotel
Southeast of town of Kotel, left to the road to village of Gradets, stands a magnificent stone statue of the Bulgarian Khan Krum and his warriors. It represents a composition of three figures (the khan and two warriors) holding swords. The statue was erected to glorify Khan Krum`s victory over the...

Jeravna

Church "St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker"
Category: Church in Jeravna
The church "St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker" in village of Jeravna was built in 1834. After its construction it was painted by the master Jordan Mihajlovic from town of Elena and the masters Georgi and Gencho from town of Tryavna. Today the church keeps a rich exposition of icons from th...

Sliven

National Museum of Textile Industry
Category: Museum in Sliven
The National Museum of the Textile Industry in town of Sliven is a subsidiary of the National Polytechnic Museum - Sofia. It was created in 1984 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of industrial development in Bulgaria. The museum is housed in its own building (the first textile scho...

Jeravna

Festival of folk costume (August)
Category: Events & Festivals in Jeravna
"The festival of folk costume" is an event held annual in village of Jeravna. The first edition was in 2008 and over the years the event has enjoyed of growing interest. The main requirement for the participants is to have Bulgarian national costume in order to fit completely in the atmosp...

Ticha

Church "St.Prophet Elijah"
Category: Church in Ticha
The church "Sv.Prorok Ilia" ("St.Prophet Elijah") in village of Ticha is the oldest church in the region. It is situated in the heart of the old village on a small hill, dominating over the other buildings. It is assumed that at the same place there was existed another medieval ...

Ticha

Koyo camii mosque
Category: Mosque in Ticha
The mosque (Koyo camii) in the village of Ticha was built in 1800. The current building was constructed later (probably around 1870) and the minaret was built in 1874.The mosque is located in a small yard in the southern part of the village, close to the main village street, where once was the Tur...

Ticha

Тhracian Cult Complex Talim Tash
Category: Sanctuary in Ticha
The Thracian cult complex Talim tash (translated from Turkish "The Soldiers stone") is situated near the road between village of Ticha and town of Kotel (about 10km south of Talim Tash), near the Urushkite rocks. The name of the locality comes from the fact that this was the place where i...

Ticha

Ticha fortress
Category: Fortress in Ticha
The remains of Ticha fortress are located near the village of Ticha, around 9 km north of town of Kotel. It was built on the bank of Cherna river (a tributary of Kamchia River).The castle was built in XII - XIV century on the remains of a late antique fortress. Its wall were followed the relief of...

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