Sights in Municipality Sliven

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

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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 e...

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...